diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 6c95961a0..415bb4f36 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ kafka-python>=1.3.1 # Apache-2.0
 coverage!=4.4,>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 
 # this is required for the docs build jobs
-sphinx!=1.6.1,>=1.5.1 # BSD
+sphinx>=1.6.2 # BSD
 oslosphinx>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0
 reno!=2.3.1,>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0