Update dependency Sphinx to v7.2.6

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
Sphinx (changelog)	7.1.2 -> 7.2.6

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Release Notes

sphinx-doc/sphinx (Sphinx)

v7.2.6

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Bugs fixed

• #​11679: Add the :envvar:!SPHINX_AUTODOC_RELOAD_MODULES environment variable,
  which if set reloads modules when using autodoc with TYPE_CHECKING = True.
  Patch by Matt Wozniski and Adam Turner.
• #​11679: Use :py:func:importlib.reload to reload modules in autodoc.
  Patch by Matt Wozniski and Adam Turner.

v7.2.5

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Bugs fixed

• #​11645: Fix a regression preventing autodoc from importing modules within
  packages that make use of if typing.TYPE_CHECKING: to guard circular
  imports needed by type checkers.
  Patch by Matt Wozniski.
• #​11634: Fixed inheritance diagram relative link resolution
  for sibling files in a subdirectory.
  Patch by Albert Shih.
• #​11659: Allow ?config=... in :confval:mathjax_path.
• #​11654: autodoc: Fail with a more descriptive error message
  when an object claims to be an instance of type,
  but is not a class.
  Patch by James Braza.
• 11620: Cease emitting :event:source-read events for files read via
  the :dudir:include directive.
• 11620: Add a new :event:include-read for observing and transforming
  the content of included files via the :dudir:include directive.
• #​11627: Restore support for copyright lines of the form YYYY
  when SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.

v7.2.4

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Bugs fixed

• #​11618: Fix a regression in the MoveModuleTargets transform,
  introduced in #​10478 (#​9662).
• #​11649: linkcheck: Resolve hanging tests for timezones west of London
  and incorrect conversion from UTC to offsets from the UNIX epoch.
  Patch by Dmitry Shachnev and Adam Turner.

v7.2.3

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Dependencies

• #​11576: Require sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.9.

Bugs fixed

• Fix regression in autodoc.Documenter.parse_name().
• Fix regression in JSON serialisation.
• #​11543: autodoc: Support positional-only parameters in classmethod methods
  when autodoc_preserve_defaults is True.
• Restore support string methods on path objects.
  This is deprecated and will be removed in Sphinx 8.
  Use :py:func:os.fspath to convert :py:class:~pathlib.Path objects to strings,
  or :py:class:~pathlib.Path's methods to work with path objects.

v7.2.2

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Bugs fixed

• Fix the signature of the StateMachine.insert_input() patch,
  for when calling with keyword arguments.
• Fixed membership testing (in) for the :py:class:str interface
  of the asset classes (_CascadingStyleSheet and _JavaScript),
  which several extensions relied upon.
• Fixed a type error in SingleFileHTMLBuilder._get_local_toctree,
  includehidden may be passed as a string or a boolean.
• Fix :noindex: for PyModule and JSModule.

v7.2.1

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Bugs fixed

• Restored the the :py:class:str interface of the asset classes
  (_CascadingStyleSheet and _JavaScript),
  which several extensions relied upon.
  This will be removed in Sphinx 9.
• Restored calls to Builder.add_{css,js}_file(),
  which several extensions relied upon.
• Restored the private API TocTree.get_toctree_ancestors(),
  which several extensions relied upon.

v7.2.0

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Dependencies

• #​11511: Drop Python 3.8 support.
• #​11576: Require Pygments 2.14 or later.

Deprecated

• #​11512: Deprecate sphinx.util.md5 and sphinx.util.sha1.
  Use hashlib instead.
• #​11526: Deprecate sphinx.testing.path.
  Use os.path or pathlib instead.
• #​11528: Deprecate sphinx.util.split_index_msg and sphinx.util.split_into.
  Use sphinx.util.index_entries.split_index_msg instead.
• Deprecate sphinx.builders.html.Stylesheet
  and sphinx.builders.html.Javascript.
  Use sphinx.application.Sphinx.add_css_file()
  and sphinx.application.Sphinx.add_js_file() instead.
• #​11582: Deprecate sphinx.builders.html.StandaloneHTMLBuilder.css_files and
  sphinx.builders.html.StandaloneHTMLBuilder.script_files.
  Use sphinx.application.Sphinx.add_css_file()
  and sphinx.application.Sphinx.add_js_file() instead.
• #​11459: Deprecate sphinx.ext.autodoc.preserve_defaults.get_function_def().
  Patch by Bénédikt Tran.

Features added

• #​11526: Support os.PathLike types and pathlib.Path objects
  in many more places.
• #​5474: coverage: Print summary statistics tables.
  Patch by Jorge Leitao.
• #​6319: viewcode: Add :confval:viewcode_line_numbers to control
  whether line numbers are added to rendered source code.
  Patch by Ben Krikler.
• #​9662: Add the :no-typesetting: option to suppress textual output
  and only create a linkable anchor.
  Patch by Latosha Maltba.
• #​11221: C++: Support domain objects in the table of contents.
  Patch by Rouslan Korneychuk.
• #​10938: doctest: Add :confval:doctest_show_successes option.
  Patch by Trey Hunner.
• #​11533: Add :no-index:, :no-index-entry:, and :no-contents-entry:.
• #​11572: Improve debug logging of reasons why files are detected as out of
  date.
  Patch by Eric Larson.
• #​10678: Emit :event:source-read events for files read via
  the :dudir:include directive.
  Patch by Halldor Fannar.
• #​11570: Use short names when using :pep:585 built-in generics.
  Patch by Riccardo Mori.
• #​11300: Improve SigElementFallbackTransform fallback logic and signature
  text elements nodes. See :doc:the documentation </extdev/nodes> for more
  details.
  Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
• Allow running Sphinx with python -m sphinx build ....

Bugs fixed

• #​11077: graphviz: Fix relative links from within the graph.
  Patch by Ralf Grubenmann.
• #​11529: Line Block in LaTeX builder outputs spurious empty token.
  Patch by Adrian Vollmer.
• #​11196: autosummary: Summary line extraction failed with "e.g."
• #​10614: Fixed a number of bugs in inheritance diagrams that resulted in
  missing or broken links.
  Patch by Albert Shih.
• #​9428: Exclude substitution definitions when running the gettext builder.
  Patch by Alvin Wong.
• #​10795: Raise a descriptive error if graphviz_dot is falsy.
• #​11546: Translated nodes identical to their original text are now marked
  with the translated=True attribute.
• #​10049: html: Change "Permalink" to "Link" for title text in link anchors.
• #​4225: Relax Pygments parsing on lexing failures.
• #​11246: Allow inline links in the first line of a docstring and one-line
  type comments #: :meta ...: when using :mod:sphinx.ext.napoleon.
  Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
• #​10930: Highlight all search terms on the search results page.
  Patch by Dmitry Shachnev.
• #​11473: Type annotations containing :py:data:~typing.Literal enumeration
  values now render correctly.
  Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
• #​11591: Fix support for C coverage in sphinx.ext.coverage extension.
  Patch by Stephen Finucane.
• #​11594: HTML Theme: Enhancements to horizontal scrolling on smaller
  devices in the agogo theme.
  Patch by Lukas Engelter.
• #​11459: Fix support for async and lambda functions in
  sphinx.ext.autodoc.preserve_defaults.
  Patch by Bénédikt Tran.

Testing

• #​11577: pytest: Fail tests on "XPASS".
• #​11577: pytest: Use "importlib" import mode.
• #​11577: pytest: Set PYTHONWARNINGS=error.
• #​11577: pytest: Set strict config and strict markers.

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