diff --git a/requirements/docs-lint.txt b/requirements/docs-lint.txt
index 91b9e4afbd6..e2c363541b2 100644
--- a/requirements/docs-lint.txt
+++ b/requirements/docs-lint.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-# Sphinx 1.8 is incompatible with
-# the latest version of rstcheck
-Sphinx<1.8
-rstcheck==3.3
+Sphinx==1.8.1
+rstcheck==3.3.1