diff --git a/.virtualenv.dev-requirements.txt b/.virtualenv.dev-requirements.txt
index 5c1e5cadbdd..7687ec92ef6 100644
--- a/.virtualenv.dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/.virtualenv.dev-requirements.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ types-simplejson
 generateDS==2.29.24
 
 # for building documentation
-sphinx==5.0.0
+sphinx>=5.0.0
 
 git+https://github.com/openSUSE/rstxml2docbook.git@feature/kiwi