diff --git a/docs_theme/requirements.txt b/docs_theme/requirements.txt
index fe9469e7..fdc093ae 100644
--- a/docs_theme/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs_theme/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 mkdocs==1.2.3
+jinja2==3.0.3 # https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/issues/9037
diff --git a/readthedocs.yml b/readthedocs.yml
index f74f3d23..60d14db0 100644
--- a/readthedocs.yml
+++ b/readthedocs.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,5 @@ formats:
 
 # Optionally set the version of Python and requirements required to build your docs
 python:
-  version: 3.7
   install:
     - requirements: docs_theme/requirements.txt