diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6872a60..ac45f53 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@
 pbr>=1.6 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
 msgpack-python>=0.4.0 # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=3.11.0 # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils>=3.14.0 # Apache-2.0
 pytz>=2013.6 # MIT
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 0a065c6..0a0d3bf 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ mock>=2.0 # BSD
 netaddr!=0.7.16,>=0.7.12 # BSD
 
 # this is required for the docs build jobs
-sphinx!=1.2.0,!=1.3b1,<1.3,>=1.1.2 # BSD
+sphinx!=1.3b1,<1.3,>=1.2.1 # BSD
 oslosphinx!=3.4.0,>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 
 oslotest>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0