diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..19ac519a4b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+version: 2
+build:
+  os: ubuntu-22.04
+  tools:
+    python: "3.11"
+sphinx:
+  configuration: docs/source/conf.py
+python:
+  install:
+    - requirements: docs/source/requirements.txt
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index b982de38e5d..bd34c2a643e 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -122,14 +122,14 @@
 # Read variables for
 # common settings and locale:
 with open('common.yaml', 'r') as stream:
-    common = yaml.load(stream)
+    common = yaml.safe_load(stream)
     project = common.get('project')
     documentation = common.get('documentation')
     description = common.get('description')
     copyright = common.get('copyright')
     author = common.get('author')
 with open('locale.yaml', 'r') as stream:
-    locale = yaml.load(stream)
+    locale = yaml.safe_load(stream)
     language = locale.get('language')
     if locale.get('locale_dirs'):
         print("Setting locale dir to " + locale.get('locale_dirs'))
diff --git a/docs/source/requirements.txt b/docs/source/requirements.txt
index 0be54a6c1ed..69aa62e7e13 100644
--- a/docs/source/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/source/requirements.txt
@@ -1,40 +1,7 @@
-alabaster==0.7.10
-argh==0.26.2
-Babel==2.9.1
-backports-abc==0.5
-certifi==2023.7.22
-chardet==3.0.4
-docopt==0.6.2
-docutils==0.14
-idna==2.6
-imagesize==0.7.1
-Jinja2>=3.1.2
-livereload==2.5.1
-MarkupSafe>=2.1.2
-pathtools==0.1.2
-pipreqs==0.4.12
-port-for==0.3.1
-protobuf==3.18.3
-Pygments==2.15.0
-pytz>=2022.7.1
-PyYAML==5.4
-requests
-restructuredtext-lint==1.1.2
-singledispatch==3.4.0.3
-six==1.11.0
-snowballstemmer==1.2.1
-Sphinx==5.1.1
-sphinx-autobuild==0.7.1
-sphinx-intl==0.9.11
-sphinx-rtd-theme==0.4.2
-sphinxcontrib-websupport==1.0.1
-tornado==6.3.3
-typing==3.6.2
-urllib3
-watchdog==0.8.3
-yarg==0.1.9
-mistune==2.0.3
+Sphinx==7.2.6
+sphinx-rtd-theme==1.3.0
+sphinxext-remoteliteralinclude==0.4.0
+pyyaml==6.0
+pygments_lexer_solidity==0.7.0
 m2r2==0.3.2
-pygments-lexer-solidity
-sphinxext-remoteliteralinclude
-m2r2==0.3.3
+