diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 782bb21..566d844 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ except ImportError:
     pass
 
 setuptools.setup(
-    setup_requires=['pbr>=1.8'],
+    setup_requires=['pbr>=2.0.0'],
     pbr=True)
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 89be917..c072a5a 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ flake8-docstrings==0.2.1.post1 # MIT
 
 coverage>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 fixtures>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
-sphinx!=1.3b1,<1.4,>=1.2.1 # BSD
+sphinx>=1.5.1 # BSD
 testrepository>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testresources>=0.2.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testtools>=1.4.0 # MIT