MAINT: removing version pinnings for testing and rtd (#634)

* MAINT: removing version pinnings for testing and rtd

* MAINT: remove uppler limit in docs/requirements, too

* FIX: referencing footnote to fix sphinx warning

Author: bsipocz

docs/authoring/text-notebooks.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This allows you to store notebook metadata, Markdown, and cell inputs in a text-
 
 MyST notebooks have a 1-to-1 mapping with Jupyter notebook,
 so can be [converted to `.ipynb` files](converting-ipynb) and [opened as notebooks in Jupyter interfaces](myst-nb/jupyter-interfaces) (with jupytext installed).
-When used with `myst_nb`, MyST notebooks are also integrated directly into the {ref}`Execution and Caching <execute/cache>` machinery.
+When used with `myst_nb`, MyST notebooks are also integrated directly into the {ref}`Execution and Caching <execute/cache>` machinery.[^download]
 
 [^download]: This notebook can be downloaded as **{nb-download}`text-notebooks.ipynb`** and {download}`text-notebooks.md`
 

docs/requirements.txt

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # this is only required by coconut kernel
-ipython<=8.16.1
+ipython

pyproject.toml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "importlib_metadata",
     "ipython",
     "jupyter-cache>=0.5",
-    "nbclient",  # nbclient version pinned by jupyter-client
+    "nbclient",
     "myst-parser>=1.0.0",
     "nbformat>=5.0",
     "pyyaml",
@@ -72,40 +72,38 @@ rtd = [
     "alabaster",
     "altair",
     "bokeh",
-    "coconut>=1.4.3,<3.1.0",
-    "ipykernel>=5.5,<7.0",
+    "coconut>=1.4.3",
+    "ipykernel>=5.5",
     "ipywidgets",
-    "jupytext>=1.11.2,<1.16.0",
+    "jupytext>=1.11.2",
     "matplotlib",
     "numpy",
     "pandas",
     "plotly",
     "sphinx-book-theme>=0.3",
     "sphinx-copybutton",
-    "sphinx-design~=0.4.0",
+    "sphinx-design",
     "sphinxcontrib-bibtex",
     "sympy",
 ]
 testing = [
-    "coverage>=6.4,<8.0",
+    "coverage>=6.4",
     "beautifulsoup4",
-    "ipykernel>=5.5,<7.0",
+    "ipykernel>=5.5",
     # for issue with 8.1.0 see https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/13554
-    # TODO ipython 8.5 subtly changes output of test regressions
-    # see https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/whatsnew/version8.html#restore-line-numbers-for-input
-    "ipython!=8.1.0,<8.17",
+    "ipython!=8.1.0",
     "ipywidgets>=8",
-    "jupytext>=1.11.2,<1.16.0",
+    "jupytext>=1.11.2",
     # Matplotlib outputs are sensitive to the matplotlib version
     "matplotlib==3.7.*",
     "nbdime",
     "numpy",
-    "pandas==1.5.*",
+    "pandas",
     "pyarrow",
-    "pytest~=7.1",
-    "pytest-cov>=3,<5",
+    "pytest",
+    "pytest-cov>=3",
     "pytest-regressions",
-    "pytest-param-files~=0.3.3",
+    "pytest-param-files",
     "sympy>=1.10.1",
 ]
 

tox.ini

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ commands = pytest {posargs}
 [testenv:docs-{update,clean}]
 extras = rtd
 deps =
-    ipython<=7.11.0  # required by coconut
+    ipython
 setenv =
     BUILDER = {env:BUILDER:html}
 whitelist_externals =