diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 622c56123..1d9d66cb6 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -3844,17 +3844,17 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "sphinx"
-version = "8.1.3"
+version = "7.4.7"
 description = "Python documentation generator"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.10"
+python-versions = ">=3.9"
 files = [
-    {file = "sphinx-8.1.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:09719015511837b76bf6e03e42eb7595ac8c2e41eeb9c29c5b755c6b677992a2"},
-    {file = "sphinx-8.1.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:43c1911eecb0d3e161ad78611bc905d1ad0e523e4ddc202a58a821773dc4c927"},
+    {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"
@@ -3864,17 +3864,17 @@ packaging = ">=23.0"
 Pygments = ">=2.17"
 requests = ">=2.30.0"
 snowballstemmer = ">=2.2"
-sphinxcontrib-applehelp = ">=1.0.7"
-sphinxcontrib-devhelp = ">=1.0.6"
-sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp = ">=2.0.6"
-sphinxcontrib-jsmath = ">=1.0.1"
-sphinxcontrib-qthelp = ">=1.0.6"
+sphinxcontrib-applehelp = "*"
+sphinxcontrib-devhelp = "*"
+sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp = ">=2.0.0"
+sphinxcontrib-jsmath = "*"
+sphinxcontrib-qthelp = "*"
 sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml = ">=1.1.9"
 tomli = {version = ">=2", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 
 [package.extras]
 docs = ["sphinxcontrib-websupport"]
-lint = ["flake8 (>=6.0)", "mypy (==1.11.1)", "pyright (==1.1.384)", "pytest (>=6.0)", "ruff (==0.6.9)", "sphinx-lint (>=0.9)", "tomli (>=2)", "types-Pillow (==10.2.0.20240822)", "types-Pygments (==2.18.0.20240506)", "types-colorama (==0.4.15.20240311)", "types-defusedxml (==0.7.0.20240218)", "types-docutils (==0.21.0.20241005)", "types-requests (==2.32.0.20240914)", "types-urllib3 (==1.26.25.14)"]
+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]]
@@ -4555,4 +4555,4 @@ type = ["pytest-mypy"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.10,<3.13"
-content-hash = "cd2b7a81967595229b40785138d8c2a017b6b852085e8b15c318fb0afd6f11d7"
+content-hash = "1d8a04b2c4c21608fc5359b45d56ee1f070d44405a9147457e6dfc424bcda8bb"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index baca69c2c..737e69cf0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ pre-commit = ">=3,<5"
 autodocsumm = "^0.2.8"
 myst-nb = "^1.0.0"
 pydocstyle = "^6.1.1"
-sphinx = ">=7,<9"
+sphinx = "^7.0.0"
 sphinx-design = "^0.6.0"
 sphinx-external-toc = "^1.0.0"
 sphinx-rtd-theme = ">=2,<4"