diff --git a/.ci/readthedocs/setup.py b/.ci/readthedocs/setup.py
index 3239762..ff9c0dc 100644
--- a/.ci/readthedocs/setup.py
+++ b/.ci/readthedocs/setup.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 xt = "https://github.com/xtensor-stack"
 cmake_projects = {
+    "pybind11": ("v2.11.1", "https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/{{}}.zip")
     "xsimd": ("10.0.0", f"{xt}/xsimd/archive/refs/tags/{{}}.zip"),
     "xtl": ("0.7.5", f"{xt}/xtl/archive/refs/tags/{{}}.zip"),
     "xtensor": ("0.24.4", f"{xt}/xtensor/archive/refs/tags/{{}}.zip"),
diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index e084b2c..e4a3778 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ build:
     - cmake
     - g++
     - make
-    - pybind11-dev
     - python3-dev
     - python3-numpy
     - python3-requests