diff --git a/docs/requirements-doc.txt b/docs/requirements-doc.txt
index 5a755031c..60fef3544 100644
--- a/docs/requirements-doc.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements-doc.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ sphinx_markdown_tables
 sphinx-multiversion@git+https://github.com/mikemckiernan/sphinx-multiversion.git@v0.3.0
 sphinxcontrib-copydirs@git+https://github.com/mikemckiernan/sphinxcontrib-copydirs.git@v0.3.3
 sphinx-external-toc<0.4
-myst-nb==0.13.2
-linkify-it-py==1.0.3
+myst-nb
+linkify-it-py
 
 # smx
 mergedeep<1.4
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 919d9f2cf..34be0cfad 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
     "myst_nb",
     "sphinx_multiversion",
     "sphinx_rtd_theme",
-    "sphinx_markdown_tables",
     "sphinx.ext.autodoc",
     "sphinx.ext.coverage",
     "sphinx.ext.githubpages",
@@ -46,7 +45,7 @@
 ]
 myst_linkify_fuzzy_links = False
 myst_heading_anchors = 3
-jupyter_execute_notebooks = "off"
+nb_execution_mode = "off"
 
 # Some documents are RST and include `.. toctree::` directives.
 suppress_warnings = ["etoc.toctree", "myst.header", "misc.highlighting_failure"]