diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fa17cf50cf..74debfd420 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ test = [
 ]
 docs = [
     "pyhf[xmlio,contrib]",
-    "sphinx>=5.1.1",  # c.f. https://github.com/scikit-hep/pyhf/pull/1926
+    "sphinx>=7.0.0",  # c.f. https://github.com/scikit-hep/pyhf/pull/2271
     "sphinxcontrib-bibtex~=2.1",
     "sphinx-click",
-    "sphinx_rtd_theme",
+    "sphinx-rtd-theme>=1.3.0rc1",  # c.f. https://github.com/scikit-hep/pyhf/pull/2271
     "nbsphinx!=0.8.8",  # c.f. https://github.com/spatialaudio/nbsphinx/issues/620
     "ipywidgets",
     "sphinx-issues",