diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1611e012..0bcd9945 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Babel>=2.3.4 # BSD
 iso8601>=0.1.11 # MIT
 lxml>=2.3 # BSD
 oslo.config>=3.10.0 # Apache-2.0
-sphinx!=1.2.0,!=1.3b1,<1.3,>=1.1.2 # BSD
+sphinx!=1.3b1,<1.3,>=1.2.1 # BSD
 demjson # GNU LGPL 3.0
 PyYAML>=3.1.0 # MIT
 cliff-tablib>=1.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 816bfe3d..ebab5080 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ pylint==1.4.5 # GNU GPL v2
 
 reno>=1.6.2 # Apache2
 oslosphinx!=3.4.0,>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0
-sphinx!=1.2.0,!=1.3b1,<1.3,>=1.1.2 # BSD
+sphinx!=1.3b1,<1.3,>=1.2.1 # BSD