diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index e5226632..1b49f428 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 version: 2
 build:
+  os: ubuntu-24.04
+  tools:
+    python: "3"
   apt_packages:
     - cmake
     - openssl
+sphinx:
+  configuration: doc/conf.py
 python:
   install:
+    - requirements: doc/requirements.txt
     - method: pip
       path: .
diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..82133027
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+sphinx
+sphinx_rtd_theme
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 8bf2de5c..90c5d967 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 cython
 flake8
 jinja2
-sphinx
-sphinx_rtd_theme
 pytest
 pytest-rerunfailures
+-r doc/requirements.txt