diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index f4a99e63..bee6d519 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ coverage!=4.4,>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 
 # this is required for the docs build jobs
 oslosphinx>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0
-sphinx!=1.6.1,>=1.5.1 # BSD
+sphinx>=1.6.2 # BSD
 reno!=2.3.1,>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 
 bandit>=1.1.0 # Apache-2.0