diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f2ddc7bd..da821ff5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ iso8601>=0.1.11 # MIT
 lxml!=3.7.0,>=2.3 # BSD
 oslo.config!=4.3.0,!=4.4.0,>=4.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 docutils>=0.11 # OSI-Approved Open Source, Public Domain
-sphinx!=1.6.1,>=1.5.1 # BSD
+sphinx>=1.6.2 # BSD
 demjson # GLGPLv3+
 PyYAML>=3.10.0 # MIT
 cliff-tablib>=1.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index a94756e5..c4bdd75e 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ doc8 # Apache-2.0
 pylint==1.7.1 # GPLv2
 
 reno!=2.3.1,>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
-openstackdocstheme>=1.5.0 # Apache-2.0
+openstackdocstheme>=1.11.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslosphinx>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0
 testrepository>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD