diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c0760da46..beecf82f7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ All notable changes to Merlin will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [unreleased]
+### Changed
+- Hardcoded Sphinx v5.3.0 requirement is now removed so we can use latest Sphinx
+
 ## [1.10.3]
 ### Added
 - The *.conf regex for the recursive-include of the merlin server directory so that pip will add it to the wheel
diff --git a/docs/requirements.in b/docs/requirements.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..268785121
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/requirements.in
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# This file will list all requirements for the docs so we can freeze a version of them for release.
+# To freeze the versions run:
+#       pip-compile requirements.in
+sphinx
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index c771e60dc..5d3faecfe 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -1,56 +1 @@
-#
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with python 3.8
-# To update, run:
-#
-#    pip-compile requirements.in
-#
-alabaster==0.7.12
-    # via sphinx
-babel==2.10.3
-    # via sphinx
-certifi==2023.7.22
-    # via requests
-charset-normalizer==2.1.1
-    # via requests
-docutils==0.17.1
-    # via sphinx
-idna==3.4
-    # via requests
-imagesize==1.4.1
-    # via sphinx
-importlib-metadata==5.0.0
-    # via sphinx
-jinja2==3.0.3
-    # via sphinx
-markupsafe==2.1.1
-    # via jinja2
-packaging==21.3
-    # via sphinx
-pygments==2.15.0
-    # via sphinx
-pyparsing==3.0.9
-    # via packaging
-pytz==2022.5
-    # via babel
-requests==2.31.0
-    # via sphinx
-snowballstemmer==2.2.0
-    # via sphinx
-sphinx==5.3.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
-sphinxcontrib-applehelp==1.0.2
-    # via sphinx
-sphinxcontrib-devhelp==1.0.2
-    # via sphinx
-sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp==2.0.0
-    # via sphinx
-sphinxcontrib-jsmath==1.0.1
-    # via sphinx
-sphinxcontrib-qthelp==1.0.3
-    # via sphinx
-sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml==1.1.5
-    # via sphinx
-urllib3==1.26.12
-    # via requests
-zipp==3.10.0
-    # via importlib-metadata
+sphinx>=5.3.0