diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 6336bfb46..8503fa3fe 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ docutils>=0.11 # OSI-Approved Open Source, Public Domain
 fixtures>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 mock>=2.0 # BSD
 oslosphinx>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0
-sphinx!=1.6.1,>=1.5.1 # BSD
+sphinx>=1.6.2 # BSD
 testrepository>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testtools>=1.4.0 # MIT
 requests-mock>=1.1 # Apache-2.0