From 0aedf2f9cf896abd4e19d251ed444cdac04c7aa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:31:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gh-143284: Temporarily install Sphinx<9 to fix Chinese search
 (#143286)

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 Doc/requirements.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/requirements.txt b/Doc/requirements.txt
index 716772b7f28..d0107744ecb 100644
--- a/Doc/requirements.txt
+++ b/Doc/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # won't suddenly cause build failures. Updating the version is fine as long
 # as no warnings are raised by doing so.
 # Keep this version in sync with ``Doc/conf.py``.
-sphinx~=9.0.0
+sphinx<9.0.0
 
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