diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 375547af..31edf4d8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ gunicorn==19.9.0
 pycodestyle==2.4.0
 pydocstyle==2.1.1
 requests==2.19.1
-Sphinx==1.7.9
+Sphinx==1.8.0
 Werkzeug==0.14.1