diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-docs.sh b/.github/workflows/build-docs.sh
index 3bc21748..c526227a 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/build-docs.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-docs.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ set -xe
 
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip
-sudo pip3 install sphinx==1.8.5
+
+python3 -m venv ./venv
+source venv/bin/activate
+
+pip3 install sphinx==8.1.3
 cd docs
 make html
 
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 5017373f..b8a415aa 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'Ghostferry'
-copyright = u'2017, Shopify'
+copyright = u'2017-2024, Shopify'
 author = u'Shopify'
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 #
 # This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
 # Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
-language = None
+language = 'en'
 
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
diff --git a/docs/source/verifiers.rst b/docs/source/verifiers.rst
index 1e1454fb..8957e692 100644
--- a/docs/source/verifiers.rst
+++ b/docs/source/verifiers.rst
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ cases are possible.
        algorithm to enumerate the table and tail the binlogs.
 
 IterativeVerifier (Deprecated)
------------------
+------------------------------
 
 **NOTE! This is a deprecated verifier. Use the InlineVerifier instead.**