[6.16.z] Bump sphinx-autoapi from 3.6.1 to 3.7.0

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Cherrypick of PR: #20777

Bumps sphinx-autoapi from 3.6.1 to 3.7.0.

Release notes

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v3.7.0

Features

• Added autoapi.import warning for when AutoAPI directives are given non-existent objects
• Adding autoapi_follow_symlinks, which allows api to traverse into symlinked directories when generating the API documentation.
• Drop support for Python 3.9 and officially support Python 3.14
• Support rendering PEP-695 type parameters

Bugfixes

• Render typing_extensions.TypeAlias like other type aliases (#520)
• Fix PythonFunction.overloads typing when source code overload(s) do not provide a return type (#523)

Misc

• Fix deprecation warnings raised by astroid and sphinx
• Handling case where match returns None to fix mypy unit test.

Changelog

Sourced from sphinx-autoapi's changelog.

v3.7.0 (2026-02-10)

Features ^^^^^^^^

• Added autoapi.import warning for when AutoAPI directives are given non-existent objects
• Adding autoapi_follow_symlinks, which allows api to traverse into symlinked directories when generating the API documentation.
• Drop support for Python 3.9 and officially support Python 3.14
• Support rendering PEP-695 type parameters

Bugfixes ^^^^^^^^

• Render typing_extensions.TypeAlias like other type aliases (#520)
• Fix PythonFunction.overloads typing when source code overload(s) do not provide a return type (#523)

Misc ^^^^

• Fix deprecation warnings raised by astroid and sphinx
• Handling case where match returns None to fix mypy unit test.

Commits

• 0917ed2 Version 3.7.0
• 394beb4 Add warning for missing import
• 96cd74d Update changelog
• c248b85 Render typing_extensions.TypeAlias like other type aliases
• a2f49c9 Fix deprecation warnings raised by astroid and sphinx
• 5ed0cd5 Update supported Python versions
• 0f7b1ab Render type params by default
• 42b315c fix: add missing release notes
• 026acde fix: User may not have provided return annotation
• cd62d87 [refactor]: match statement to ifs
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• Bump sphinx-autoapi from 3.6.1 to 3.7.0 in optional requirements to align with upstream tooling.

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Reviewer's Guide

Updates the optional documentation dependency sphinx-autoapi from version 3.6.1 to 3.7.0 via a requirements file change, pulling in upstream feature and bugfix improvements for API docs generation.

File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Upgrade sphinx-autoapi dependency to v3.7.0 for documentation generation.	Change the pinned sphinx-autoapi version from 3.6.1 to 3.7.0 in the optional requirements set used for docs tooling. Align this branch with the upstream cherrypicked PR so Dependabot-managed doc dependencies are consistent across versions.	requirements-optional.txt

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