diff --git a/doc/requirements.txt b/doc/requirements.txt
index d6c48ba9ce..5fea674f4e 100644
--- a/doc/requirements.txt
+++ b/doc/requirements.txt
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ sphinx>=2.0.0,!=2.1.0 # BSD
 sphinxcontrib-svg2pdfconverter>=0.1.0 # BSD
 openstackdocstheme>=2.2.1 # Apache-2.0
 reno>=3.1.0 # Apache-2.0
-doc8>=0.8.0 # Apache-2.0
+doc8>=0.8.1 # Apache-2.0
 bashate>=0.6.0 # Apache-2.0