diff --git a/docs/source/examples/template.md b/docs/source/examples/template.md
index 6b2f576f9..1e931a861 100644
--- a/docs/source/examples/template.md
+++ b/docs/source/examples/template.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ kernelspec:
 # An example Jupyter Notebook
 
 This notebook is a demonstration of directly-parsing Jupyter Notebooks into
-Sphinx using the MyST parser.[^download]
+Sphinx using the MyST parser.
 
 ## Markdown
 
@@ -164,4 +164,4 @@ nbsphinx_thumbnails = {
     "examples/{EXAMPLE_FILENAME_WITHOUT_.md}": "_static/{THUMBNAIL_FILENAME_WITH_EXTENSION}",
     "examples/hamiltonians": "_static/vqe-cirq-pauli-sum-mitigation-plot.png"
     }
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```
diff --git a/requirements/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements/requirements-dev.txt
index d9be1a735..209d61db5 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ mypy==1.0.0
 types-tabulate
 
 # Documentation and examples.
-Sphinx==7.2.6
+Sphinx==8.0.2
 sphinxcontrib-bibtex==2.6.2
 sphinx-copybutton==0.5.2
 sphinx-autodoc-typehints==2.0.0
-myst-nb==1.0.0
-myst-parser==3.0.1
-pydata-sphinx-theme==0.15.2
+myst-nb==1.1.1
+myst-parser==4.0.0
+pydata-sphinx-theme==0.15.4
 jupytext==1.16.1
 sphinx-gallery==0.15.0
 nbsphinx==0.9.3