diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 570838b47..85fe0a521 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ recommonmark==0.6.0
 m2r==0.2.1
 added-value==0.14.2
 tomlkit==0.5.11
-docutils==0.14
+docutils==0.16
 
 # Dependencies of our linter that should be documented,
 # other dependencies are just ignored or