diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index c2a65a9ea..366f43eee 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1394,17 +1394,17 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "sphinx"
-version = "8.0.2"
+version = "7.4.7"
 description = "Python documentation generator"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.10"
+python-versions = ">=3.9"
 files = [
-    {file = "sphinx-8.0.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:56173572ae6c1b9a38911786e206a110c9749116745873feae4f9ce88e59391d"},
-    {file = "sphinx-8.0.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0cce1ddcc4fd3532cf1dd283bc7d886758362c5c1de6598696579ce96d8ffa5b"},
+    {file = "sphinx-7.4.7-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:c2419e2135d11f1951cd994d6eb18a1835bd8fdd8429f9ca375dc1f3281bd239"},
+    {file = "sphinx-7.4.7.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:242f92a7ea7e6c5b406fdc2615413890ba9f699114a9c09192d7dfead2ee9cfe"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-alabaster = ">=0.7.14"
+alabaster = ">=0.7.14,<0.8.0"
 babel = ">=2.13"
 colorama = {version = ">=0.4.6", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
 docutils = ">=0.20,<0.22"
@@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml = ">=1.1.9"
 
 [package.extras]
 docs = ["sphinxcontrib-websupport"]
-lint = ["flake8 (>=6.0)", "mypy (==1.11.0)", "pytest (>=6.0)", "ruff (==0.5.5)", "sphinx-lint (>=0.9)", "tomli (>=2)", "types-Pillow (==10.2.0.20240520)", "types-Pygments (==2.18.0.20240506)", "types-colorama (==0.4.15.20240311)", "types-defusedxml (==0.7.0.20240218)", "types-docutils (==0.21.0.20240724)", "types-requests (>=2.30.0)"]
+lint = ["flake8 (>=6.0)", "importlib-metadata (>=6.0)", "mypy (==1.10.1)", "pytest (>=6.0)", "ruff (==0.5.2)", "sphinx-lint (>=0.9)", "tomli (>=2)", "types-docutils (==0.21.0.20240711)", "types-requests (>=2.30.0)"]
 test = ["cython (>=3.0)", "defusedxml (>=0.7.1)", "pytest (>=8.0)", "setuptools (>=70.0)", "typing_extensions (>=4.9)"]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1635,4 +1635,4 @@ zstd = ["zstandard (>=0.18.0)"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.11"
-content-hash = "9c3f438cea804bafdbbc795dbf741b68bbcfc60ffa8bd13b803eb306a7710422"
+content-hash = "92cd7c5093e24760f8e06cf3ed0851ff7c58d29f45f7eab325bb88ccab250bcd"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d3004b2aa..1e861c926 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ django-simple-history = ">=3.6"
 [tool.poetry.group.docs]
 optional = true
 [tool.poetry.group.docs.dependencies]
-sphinx = "*"
+sphinx = "^7"
 sphinx-rtd-theme = "*"
 myst-parser = ">=3.0.1,<5.0.0"