diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index b8b348f8..8448074a 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ oslotest>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 
 # These are needed for docs generation/testing
 oslosphinx>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0
-sphinx!=1.6.1,>=1.5.1 # BSD
+sphinx>=1.6.2 # BSD
 doc8 # Apache-2.0
 reno!=2.3.1,>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0