Sphnx 5

[Czaki]

Is there any reason why sphinx 5.x.x is blocked, or it could be simply released?

[melissawm]

Unfortunately a number of the current dependencies require Sphinx<5:

sphinx-panels 0.6.0 requires sphinx<5,>=2, but you have sphinx 5.1.1 which is incompatible.
sphinx-external-toc 0.3.0 requires sphinx<5,>=3, but you have sphinx 5.1.1 which is incompatible.
myst-parser 0.17.2 requires sphinx<5,>=3.1, but you have sphinx 5.1.1 which is incompatible.
myst-nb 0.15.0 requires sphinx<5,>=3.5, but you have sphinx 5.1.1 which is incompatible.

Not sure if they can be updated without conflict.

[Czaki]

from sphinx-panels there is suggested to change to sphinx-design as sphinx-panels is no longer maintained. https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-panels/issues/80 https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-panels#readme

for sphinx-external-toc there is no issue but After remove requirements of sphinx <5 all tests pass. I could create PR if you think that it is worth.

myst-parser in version 0.18.0 has "sphinx>=4,<6", in requirements.

myst-nb in version 0.16.0 has "sphinx>=4,<6", in requirements.

So two requirements are not a problem, one is deprecated and should be replaced, for one it looks like small PR with replace "sphinx>=3,<5", to "sphinx>=3,<6", is required.

[melissawm]

Looks reasonable to me - @codemonkey800 any thoughts?

[codemonkey800]

sounds good, I want to make sure we keep an eye out for any UI regressions too so we can fix them before release