[Python-checkins] bpo-36007: Bump minimum sphinx version to 1.8 (GH-11887)

[Miss Islington (bot)]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a16ab00c0b8e126ab82e7cb5098af3ea32d315ff
commit: a16ab00c0b8e126ab82e7cb5098af3ea32d315ff
branch: master
author: Anthony Sottile <asottile at umich.edu>
committer: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2019-02-15T15:41:15-08:00
summary:

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



https://bugs.python.org/issue36007

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-02-15-15-33-41.bpo-36007.OTFrza.rst
M Doc/conf.py

diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index a9dfe827a0dd..afe66270c10e 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
 # 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
index 000000000000..e8061b3d09a2
--- /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.