diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 516f3c8b5a61..69a31ec839a5 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ python-barbicanclient>=4.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 python-ironicclient>=1.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 python-subunit>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 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
 os-api-ref>=0.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslosphinx!=3.4.0,>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslotest>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0