diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 18df09069..432e274aa 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ requirements (Note: not all ns-3 features are available on all systems):
 Python API requires [Cppyy](https://cppyy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html) and has only
 been tested on Linux. As of this release, the latest known version to work with ns-3 is cppyy==3.1.2.
 
+The required Doxygen version for documentation generation is now version 1.13.
+
 ### New user-visible features
 
 - (core ) !2385 - The function `Now()` will now print the real time since the beginning of the simulation instead of the real time since the last event call when `RealTimeSimulatorImpl` is used.
diff --git a/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-doc.yml b/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-doc.yml
index 281d30e1e..569c927f5 100644
--- a/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-doc.yml
+++ b/utils/tests/gitlab-ci-doc.yml
@@ -9,15 +9,9 @@
       base-devel ninja cmake python ccache gsl gtk3 boost openmpi openssh
       graphviz imagemagick texlive-basic texlive-bin texlive-binextra texlive-latexextra
       texlive-fontutils texlive-fontsrecommended texlive-mathscience python-sphinx wget
-    #  doxygen
+      doxygen
     # dia is archived
     - pacman --noconfirm -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/d/dia/dia-0.97.3-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-    # temporary revert to Doxygen 1.11.0. The package has been recompiled
-    # without spdlog and wizard support to fix a library dependency.
-    # Clang-18 is needed by doxygen
-    - pacman -S --noconfirm clang18
-    - wget -nv http://www.nsnam.org/packages/doxygen-1.11.0-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-    - pacman --noconfirm -U doxygen-1.11.0-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
     # no policy is a good policy.
     - mv /etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml /etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml.bak
     # - sed -i "s/EPS,PDF,//g" /etc/ImageMagick-7/policy.xml