diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index f263772c..04e6c440 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ repos:
     hooks:
     - id: isort
 -   repo: https://github.com/psf/black
-    rev: 24.3.0
+    rev: 24.4.0
     hooks:
     - id: black
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.5.0
+    rev: v4.6.0
     hooks:
     - id: check-ast
     - id: check-case-conflict
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ repos:
     - id: check-yaml
     - id: debug-statements
 -   repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: 'v0.3.5'
+    rev: 'v0.3.7'
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
         args: ['--fix']
diff --git a/docs/release/ablog-v0.11-released.rst b/docs/release/ablog-v0.11-released.rst
index 7858f09c..39709800 100644
--- a/docs/release/ablog-v0.11-released.rst
+++ b/docs/release/ablog-v0.11-released.rst
@@ -85,3 +85,8 @@ Pull Requests merged in:
 
 
 `Add span to more items in templates <https://github.com/sunpy/ablog/pull/270>`__ from `Nabil Freij <https://github.com/nabobalis>`__.
+
+ABlog v0.11.8 released
+----------------------
+
+Added support for ``sphinx`` >=7.3.0
diff --git a/src/ablog/__init__.py b/src/ablog/__init__.py
index fb508748..e6c295e4 100755
--- a/src/ablog/__init__.py
+++ b/src/ablog/__init__.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 from pathlib import PurePath
 
 from sphinx.builders.html import StandaloneHTMLBuilder
+from sphinx.errors import ThemeError
 from sphinx.jinja2glue import BuiltinTemplateLoader, SphinxFileSystemLoader
 from sphinx.locale import get_translation
 
@@ -118,7 +119,13 @@ def builder_inited(app):
     theme = app.builder.theme
     loaders = app.builder.templates.loaders
     templatepathlen = app.builder.templates.templatepathlen
-    if theme.get_config("ablog", "inject_templates_after_theme", False):
+    try:
+        # Modern Sphinx now errors instead of returning the default if there is not a value
+        # in any of the config files.
+        after_theme = theme.get_config("ablog", "inject_templates_after_theme", False)
+    except ThemeError:
+        after_theme = False
+    if after_theme:
         # Inject *after* the user templates and the theme templates,
         # allowing themes to override the templates provided by this
         # extension while those templates still serve as a fallback.