diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index b6b9386f..d9f08a27 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@
 
 version: 2
 
+build:
+  tools:
+    python: "3.10"
+
 sphinx:
   builder: html
   configuration: doc/conf.py
   fail_on_warning: false
 
 python:
-  version: 3.7
   install:
     - requirements: doc/requirements.txt
diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
index b7ca11e4..b8228eba 100644
--- a/doc/requirements.txt
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-sphinx==3.5.4
-sphinx_rtd_theme==0.5.2
+Sphinx==4.5.0
+sphinx-rtd-theme==1.0.0
 sphinxcontrib-katex==0.8.6
 sphinxcontrib-youtube==1.1.0
 sphinx-reredirects==0.0.1
 nbsphinx==0.8.0
 pandoc==1.0.2
 pygments==2.7.4
-jq==1.1.1
+jq==1.2.2
 Jinja2==2.11.3
 wheel
 # see https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/issues/3661 regarding markupsafe