diff --git a/docs/docsite/sphinx_conf/ansible_conf.py b/docs/docsite/sphinx_conf/ansible_conf.py
index 70772f0f10b..6f71660af59 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/sphinx_conf/ansible_conf.py
+++ b/docs/docsite/sphinx_conf/ansible_conf.py
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ html_context = {
     'github_root_dir': 'devel/lib/ansible',
     'github_cli_version': 'devel/lib/ansible/cli/',
     'current_version': version,
-    'latest_version': '7',
+    'latest_version': '8',
     # list specifically out of order to make latest work
     'available_versions': ('latest', '2.9', 'devel'),
 }