diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index bc244d486167c9d7a6dc69c3b963f695260b5652..036ec6241efd8d50151c1744dea1362980d0cbe0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ jobs:
           pytest tests dios/test -Werror 
           python -m saqc --config docs/resources/data/config.csv --data docs/resources/data/data.csv --outfile /tmp/test.csv
       
-      - name: run doc tests    
-        run: |
-          cd docs
-          pip install -r requirements.txt
-          make doc
-          make test
+      # - name: run doc tests    
+      #   run: |
+      #     cd docs
+      #     pip install -r requirements.txt
+      #     make doc
+      #     make test
           
           
diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 32f7b43dac183f982b1c7fa9a3845cefad829a78..304194f644e35bf811546526ecb2077f2f4034e8 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ help:
 
 .PHONY: help Makefile clean
 
-echo:
-	for k in $(MDLIST); do echo docs/"$$k"; done
-
 # clean sphinx generated stuff
 clean:
 	rm -rf _build _static _api
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index ef9380717b785954b0e4eae1adf4922197fc390f..412a452a20ca0b408634ec6172a52d36cd492bde 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -3,11 +3,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 recommonmark==0.7.1
-sphinx<6
+sphinx<7
 sphinx-automodapi==0.14.1
 sphinxcontrib-fulltoc==1.2.0
 sphinx-markdown-tables==0.0.17
-# m2r==0.2.1
 jupyter-sphinx==0.3.2
 sphinx_autodoc_typehints==1.18.2
 sphinx-tabs==3.4.1