diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 74debfd420..1e50c697ce 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ docs = [
     "sphinx>=7.0.0",  # c.f. https://github.com/scikit-hep/pyhf/pull/2271
     "sphinxcontrib-bibtex~=2.1",
     "sphinx-click",
-    "sphinx-rtd-theme>=1.3.0rc1",  # c.f. https://github.com/scikit-hep/pyhf/pull/2271
+    "sphinx-rtd-theme>=1.3.0",  # c.f. https://github.com/scikit-hep/pyhf/pull/2271
     "nbsphinx!=0.8.8",  # c.f. https://github.com/spatialaudio/nbsphinx/issues/620
     "ipywidgets",
     "sphinx-issues",