diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index a7998a077..1a40c4f82 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -20,5 +20,5 @@ tempest>=17.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 # Bandit build requirements
 bandit!=1.6.0,>=1.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 
-doc8>=0.6.0 # Apache-2.0
+doc8>=0.8.1 # Apache-2.0
 Pygments>=2.2.0 # BSD license