diff --git a/docs/api/instrument/index.rst b/docs/api/instrument/index.rst
index a704a2f0fc2..bb24de27a27 100644
--- a/docs/api/instrument/index.rst
+++ b/docs/api/instrument/index.rst
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ qcodes.instrument
 =================
 
 .. automodule:: qcodes.instrument
+    :autosummary:
diff --git a/docs_requirements.txt b/docs_requirements.txt
index b9c23f86c63..9b369d8c2e7 100644
--- a/docs_requirements.txt
+++ b/docs_requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ alabaster==0.7.12
 argon2-cffi==21.3.0
 async-generator==1.10
 attrs==21.4.0
-autodocsumm==0.2.8
+git+https://github.com/Chilipp/autodocsumm.git@c3689c9204afcb2903ca50ca809aefc62f76316d
 Babel==2.10.3
 backcall==0.2.0
 bleach==5.0.1
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ scipy==1.8.1; python_version>='3.8'
 Send2Trash==1.8.0
 six==1.16.0
 snowballstemmer==2.2.0
-Sphinx==4.5.0
+git+https://github.com/jenshnielsen/sphinx.git@fix_9884_50branch
 sphinx-favicon==0.2
 sphinx-jsonschema==1.19.1
 sphinx-rtd-theme==1.0.0