diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 6043dfea75..97c645d9b4 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 breathe>=4.4
-docutils>=0.13
+docutils==0.16
 Pygments>=2.2
 pyparsing>=2.1
 Sphinx>=1.8.5