bpo-36007: Bump minimum sphinx version to 1.8 (GH-11887)

https://bugs.python.org/issue36007

diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index a9dfe827a0dd0a42773ede7e5036762853d8eb40..afe66270c10e8cf6b11d180aa46429d646a8c4b6 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
 # By default, highlight as Python 3.
 highlight_language = 'python3'
 
-# Require Sphinx 1.7 for build.
-needs_sphinx = '1.7'
+# Minimum version of sphinx required
+needs_sphinx = '1.8'
 
 # Ignore any .rst files in the venv/ directory.
 venvdir = os.getenv('VENVDIR', 'venv')

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-02-15-15-33-41.bpo-36007.OTFrza.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-02-15-15-33-41.bpo-36007.OTFrza.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..e8061b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-02-15-15-33-41.bpo-36007.OTFrza.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Bump minimum sphinx version to 1.8.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.