diff --git a/3rd-party/pympistandard b/3rd-party/pympistandard
index 7bc6bb0ff96..6032f68dd96 160000
--- a/3rd-party/pympistandard
+++ b/3rd-party/pympistandard
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 7bc6bb0ff9630542fb0030ac4d976bef1f1cb026
+Subproject commit 6032f68dd9636b48977f59e986acc01a746593a6
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 8d6fb9075fa..9baf32a6304 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ automake_min_version=1.13.4
 autoconf_min_version=2.69.0
 libtool_min_version=2.4.2
 flex_min_version=2.5.4
-python_min_version=3.7
+python_min_version=3.6
 
 # greek is generally used for alpha or beta release tags.  If it is
 # non-empty, it will be appended to the version number.  It does not
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 80798525f3d..001c5f10adf 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,11 @@ sphinx>=4.2.0
 recommonmark
 docutils
 sphinx-rtd-theme
+
+# These modules are needed for the pympistandard module when you are
+# running Python 3.6 (they became part of core Python in 3.7).  We
+# specifically use "==" (vs. "<=") because the top-level Open MPI
+# VERSION file lists Python 3.6 as the minimum required version of
+# Python -- we will never be using < 3.6 to build the Open MPI docs.
+importlib_resources; python_version == "3.6"
+dataclasses; python_version == "3.6"