diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index df6cdcb43..9ce8f4fac 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ oslosphinx>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0
 python-subunit>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 reno!=2.3.1,>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 requests-mock>=1.1 # Apache-2.0
-sphinx!=1.6.1,>=1.5.1 # BSD
-tempest>=14.0.0 # Apache-2.0
+sphinx>=1.6.2 # BSD
+tempest>=16.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 testtools>=1.4.0 # MIT
 testrepository>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 os-testr>=0.8.0 # Apache-2.0