diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 835d541641..9cc3cbca97 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ A brief description of the categories of changes:
   (or equivalent).
 * (toolchains) `py_runtime.implementation_name` now defaults to `cpython`
   (previously it defaulted to None).
+* (deps) stardoc 0.6.2 added as dependency.
 
 ### Fixed
 * (bzlmod) The `python.override(minor_mapping)` now merges the default and the
diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index 780d7f8666..390e81a6d8 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -66,8 +66,10 @@ pip.parse(
 )
 use_repo(pip, "rules_python_publish_deps")
 
+# Not a dev dependency to allow usage of //sphinxdocs code, which refers to stardoc repos.
+bazel_dep(name = "stardoc", version = "0.6.2", repo_name = "io_bazel_stardoc")
+
 # ===== DEV ONLY DEPS AND SETUP BELOW HERE =====
-bazel_dep(name = "stardoc", version = "0.6.2", dev_dependency = True, repo_name = "io_bazel_stardoc")
 bazel_dep(name = "rules_bazel_integration_test", version = "0.20.0", dev_dependency = True)
 bazel_dep(name = "rules_testing", version = "0.6.0", dev_dependency = True)