diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 0069d45e0..a358611b3 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ oslosphinx>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslotest>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 reno!=2.3.1,>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 requests-mock>=1.1 # Apache-2.0
-sphinx!=1.6.1,>=1.5.1 # BSD
+sphinx>=1.6.2 # BSD
 tempest>=14.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 testrepository>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testresources>=0.2.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD