diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index da3fe74e..8e83c7d8 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ image: registry.hub.docker.com/bitnami/minideb:bullseye
 before_script:
   # following ones get updated, so they are not installed from Debian package repo: python3-sphinx python3-pybtex python3-pybtex-docutils
 - install_packages pip jupyter-notebook python3-anyio python3-greenlet python3-click python3-jupyter-server python3-sqlalchemy python3-latexcodec python3-nbclient python3-nest-asyncio python3-smmap python3-soupsieve python3-toml
-- pip install jupyter-book && rm -r /root/.cache/pip
+  # limit to v0.14.0 until there is a fix for https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-book/issues/1964
+- pip install jupyter-book==0.14.0 && rm -r /root/.cache/pip
 
 pages:
   stage: deploy
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 62721499..5a7bfda6 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ FROM registry.hub.docker.com/bitnami/minideb:bullseye
 #RUN apt-get update
 # following ones get updated, so they are not installed from Debian package repo: python3-sphinx python3-pybtex python3-pybtex-docutils
 RUN install_packages pip jupyter-notebook python3-anyio python3-greenlet python3-click python3-jupyter-server python3-sqlalchemy python3-latexcodec python3-nbclient python3-nest-asyncio python3-smmap python3-soupsieve python3-toml
-RUN pip install jupyter-book && rm -r /root/.cache/pip
+# limit to v0.14.0 until there is a fix for https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-book/issues/1964
+RUN pip install jupyter-book==0.14.0 && rm -r /root/.cache/pip
 
 RUN mkdir -p /root/documentation
 COPY . /root/documentation