diff --git a/docs/docsite/requirements.txt b/docs/docsite/requirements.txt
index 1290ac1df09074..cac2762b68a8d7 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/docsite/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 jinja2
 PyYAML
 rstcheck
-sphinx==2.1.2 
+sphinx==3.0.4 
 sphinx-notfound-page
 Pygments >= 2.4.0
 straight.plugin # Needed for hacking/build-ansible.py which is the backend build script