> We've been meaning to raise the minimum version for a bit. Going to v3 > might be a bit of a stretch, though. I still do most of my test builds > with 2.4.3 just because Sphinx got so....much........slower with 3.0. > I've not yet had a chance to try out 5.0 to see if that helps things, > that's on my list to do soon. Sphinx 5.0 should be faster, I changed the logic to cache and reuse the core publisher objects [1]_. I haven't compared to 2.4.3 though. A _[1]: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/10337