diff --git a/.github/workflows/doc-build.yml b/.github/workflows/doc-build.yml
index 351cb041a83..7100c451629 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/doc-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/doc-build.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ on:
 
 env:
   # NOTE: west docstrings will be extracted from the version listed here
-  WEST_VERSION: 1.0.0
+  WEST_VERSION: 1.2.0
   # The latest CMake available directly with apt is 3.18, but we need >=3.20
   # so we fetch that through pip.
   CMAKE_VERSION: 3.20.5