From 42e155b3b4dd1f936b6629fd22f3c6cdadd50db8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tremain Knight <2108488+tkknight@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2026 15:26:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] updated dependency

---
 .readthedocs.yml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index 6b0c699f21..176ce0cd1d 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ version: 2
 build:
   os: "ubuntu-22.04"
   tools:
-    python: "mambaforge-22.9"
+    python: "miniforge3-latest"
   jobs:
     post_checkout:
       # The SciTools/iris repository is shallow i.e., has a .git/shallow,

From 9e0d69d89d89c27c40f564b9f088b40c9d18237d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tremain Knight <2108488+tkknight@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2026 15:39:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add whatsnew

---
 docs/src/whatsnew/latest.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/src/whatsnew/latest.rst b/docs/src/whatsnew/latest.rst
index 3e6d53fa52..21125b09c8 100644
--- a/docs/src/whatsnew/latest.rst
+++ b/docs/src/whatsnew/latest.rst
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ This document explains the changes made to Iris for this release
 #. `@tkknight`_ added a minimum pin for the PyData Sphinxc Theme as we use the
    collapse sidebar feature introduced in 0.17.0. (:pull:`7060`)
 
+#. `@tkknight`_ updated a dependency in the Read The Docs configuration file to
+   use the latest python. (:pull:`7084`)
 
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