diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f979fe54..e01a386a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ gunicorn==19.9.0
 pycodestyle==2.4.0
 pydocstyle==2.1.1
 requests==2.19.1
-Sphinx==1.7.8
+Sphinx==1.7.9
 Werkzeug==0.14.1