diff --git a/Doc/make.bat b/Doc/make.bat
index d234e77c37f..d3f01b575ca 100644
--- a/Doc/make.bat
+++ b/Doc/make.bat
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ echo.
 goto end
 
 :checkout
-svn co %SVNROOT%/external/Sphinx-0.6.7/sphinx tools/sphinx
+svn co %SVNROOT%/external/Sphinx-1.0.7/sphinx tools/sphinx
 svn co %SVNROOT%/external/docutils-0.6/docutils tools/docutils
 svn co %SVNROOT%/external/Jinja-2.3.1/jinja2 tools/jinja2
 svn co %SVNROOT%/external/Pygments-1.3.1/pygments tools/pygments
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 10c3bd0f829..790979c8ee2 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -953,6 +953,8 @@ Tools/Demos
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Issue #17412: update 2.7 Doc/make.bat to also use sphinx-1.0.7.
+
 - Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
   reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.