diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 824e4ad83c..55543a1571 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1067,26 +1067,26 @@ python-versions = "*"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "myst-parser"
-version = "0.17.2"
+version = "0.18.0"
 description = "An extended commonmark compliant parser, with bridges to docutils & sphinx."
 category = "main"
 optional = true
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 
 [package.dependencies]
-docutils = ">=0.15,<0.18"
+docutils = ">=0.15,<0.19"
 jinja2 = "*"
 markdown-it-py = ">=1.0.0,<3.0.0"
 mdit-py-plugins = ">=0.3.0,<0.4.0"
 pyyaml = "*"
-sphinx = ">=3.1,<5"
+sphinx = ">=4,<6"
 typing-extensions = "*"
 
 [package.extras]
 code_style = ["pre-commit (>=2.12,<3.0)"]
 linkify = ["linkify-it-py (>=1.0,<2.0)"]
-rtd = ["ipython", "sphinx-book-theme", "sphinx-panels", "sphinxcontrib-bibtex (>=2.4,<3.0)", "sphinxext-rediraffe (>=0.2.7,<0.3.0)", "sphinxcontrib.mermaid (>=0.7.1,<0.8.0)", "sphinxext-opengraph (>=0.6.3,<0.7.0)"]
-testing = ["beautifulsoup4", "coverage", "docutils (>=0.17.0,<0.18.0)", "pytest (>=6,<7)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-regressions", "pytest-param-files (>=0.3.4,<0.4.0)"]
+rtd = ["ipython", "sphinx-book-theme", "sphinx-design", "sphinxext-rediraffe (>=0.2.7,<0.3.0)", "sphinxcontrib.mermaid (>=0.7.1,<0.8.0)", "sphinxext-opengraph (>=0.6.3,<0.7.0)"]
+testing = ["beautifulsoup4", "coverage", "pytest (>=6,<7)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-regressions", "pytest-param-files (>=0.3.4,<0.4.0)", "sphinx-pytest"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "nbclient"
@@ -2442,7 +2442,7 @@ docs = ["emoji", "myst-parser", "pygments", "sphinx", "sphinx-autoapi", "sphinx-
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.8,<3.11"
-content-hash = "3239362f7fe61a875e0cf4a6bfa99d2a460c627544dbd3247193a2f36056a499"
+content-hash = "cf62919a7eecc516911872ff13c0d35ce61d0496e0f8ca27de9f16058c14044e"
 
 [metadata.files]
 alabaster = [
@@ -3104,8 +3104,8 @@ mypy-extensions = [
     {file = "mypy_extensions-0.4.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2d82818f5bb3e369420cb3c4060a7970edba416647068eb4c5343488a6c604a8"},
 ]
 myst-parser = [
-    {file = "myst-parser-0.17.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:4c076d649e066f9f5c7c661bae2658be1ca06e76b002bb97f02a09398707686c"},
-    {file = "myst_parser-0.17.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:1635ce3c18965a528d6de980f989ff64d6a1effb482e1f611b1bfb79e38f3d98"},
+    {file = "myst-parser-0.18.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:739a4d96773a8e55a2cacd3941ce46a446ee23dcd6b37e06f73f551ad7821d86"},
+    {file = "myst_parser-0.18.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4965e51918837c13bf1c6f6fe2c6bddddf193148360fbdaefe743a4981358f6a"},
 ]
 nbclient = [
     {file = "nbclient-0.6.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f251bba200a2b401a061dfd700a7a70b5772f664fb49d4a2d3e5536ec0e98c76"},
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0cd7212d75..5aa48cb242 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ typeguard = "^2.13.3" # Runtime type checker; Note: Mypyc-compiled C-extensions
 # as a hack until Poetry version >= 1.2 when dependency groups are supported
 # see: python-poetry/poetry#1644
 emoji = { version = "^1.6.3", optional = true}
-myst-parser = { version = "^0.17.0", optional = true}
+myst-parser = { version = ">=0.17,<0.19", optional = true}
 pygments = { version = "^2.11.2", optional = true}
 sphinx = { version = "^4.4.0", optional = true}
 sphinx-autoapi = { version = "^1.8.4", optional = true}