diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index ef29602..8ecaf93 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
+# required
 version: 2
 
-sphinx:
-  configuration: doc/src/conf.py
+build:
+  os: ubuntu-20.04
+  tools:
+    python: "3.9"
 
+# Build documentation in the doc/src directory with Sphinx
+sphinx:
+   configuration: doc/src/conf.py
+
+# declare Python requirements required to build docs
 python:
-  version: 3.8
-  install:
-    - requirements: doc/requirements.txt
+   install:
+   - requirements: doc/requirements.txt
diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
index e18fa42..dcc8e5c 100644
--- a/doc/requirements.txt
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-sphinx==4.1.2
-sphinx_rtd_theme==0.5.1
+sphinx>=4.2.0
+sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.5.2