diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 9f2d62d..36dfb0c 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ requests>=2.14.2 # Apache-2.0
 ndg-httpsclient>=0.4.2;python_version<'3.0' # BSD
 
 # 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
-openstackdocstheme>=1.5.0 # Apache-2.0
+openstackdocstheme>=1.11.0 # Apache-2.0
 doc8 # Apache-2.0
 reno!=2.3.1,>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 sphinxmark>=0.1.14 # Apache-2.0