diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/603.miscellaneous.md b/doc/changelog.d/603.miscellaneous.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8d70b903
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/603.miscellaneous.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fix: impose upper version for the pydata-sphinx-theme
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index adbb1665..43e7fd62 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
     "Sphinx>=4.2.0",
-    "pydata-sphinx-theme>=0.15.4,<0.17",
+    "pydata-sphinx-theme>=0.15.4,<0.16",
     "Jinja2>=3.1.2",
     "importlib-metadata>=4.0",
     "pdf2image>=1.17.0",