diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index c934131d9..2c78b1b47 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ oslosphinx!=3.4.0,>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslotest>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 reno>=1.6.2 # Apache2
 requests-mock>=0.7.0 # Apache-2.0
-sphinx!=1.2.0,!=1.3b1,<1.3,>=1.1.2 # BSD
+sphinx!=1.3b1,<1.3,>=1.2.1 # BSD
 tempest>=11.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 testrepository>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testresources>=0.2.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD