[Python-checkins] gh-86986: bump min sphinx version to 3.2 (GH-93337) (GH-93562)

[ambv]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6b7b901ff2c2347081862ead74ac96f2ece86fc3
commit: 6b7b901ff2c2347081862ead74ac96f2ece86fc3
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: ambv <lukasz at langa.pl>
date: 2022-06-07T10:24:54+02:00
summary:

gh-86986: bump min sphinx version to 3.2 (GH-93337) (GH-93562)

(cherry picked from commit 57e8ee7086bf3f5c50c901e9d5896275644bbb54)

Co-authored-by: Davide Rizzo <sorcio at gmail.com>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2022-05-29-21-22-54.gh-issue-86986.lFXw8j.rst
M Doc/conf.py

diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index cbf201a314eec..d81085883d0d4 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 highlight_language = 'python3'
 
 # Minimum version of sphinx required
-needs_sphinx = '1.8'
+needs_sphinx = '3.2'
 
 # Ignore any .rst files in the venv/ directory.
 exclude_patterns = ['venv/*', 'README.rst']
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2022-05-29-21-22-54.gh-issue-86986.lFXw8j.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2022-05-29-21-22-54.gh-issue-86986.lFXw8j.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1db028c30f67a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2022-05-29-21-22-54.gh-issue-86986.lFXw8j.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+The minimum Sphinx version required to build the documentation is now 3.2.