diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 0e89da9e83..7e891dab42 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@ autoflake
 isort
 diff_cover
 lxml
-docutils>=0.16,<0.18
+docutils>=0.16,<0.21
 pyupgrade
 pytest-xdist