diff --git a/docs/contributing/requirements.txt b/docs/contributing/requirements.txt
index 930608d1..de6c0c1d 100644
--- a/docs/contributing/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/contributing/requirements.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ Sphinx~=1.0
 recommonmark>=0.4.0
 sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.1.9
 wget
-packaging~=17.0
+packaging~=18.0
diff --git a/docs/root/requirements.txt b/docs/root/requirements.txt
index ec7c164a..4ee8907d 100644
--- a/docs/root/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/root/requirements.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ recommonmark>=0.4.0
 sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.1.9
 sphinxcontrib-napoleon>=0.4.4
 sphinxcontrib-httpdomain>=1.5.0
-packaging~=17.0
+packaging~=18.0
diff --git a/docs/server/requirements.txt b/docs/server/requirements.txt
index 7871571a..467bc009 100644
--- a/docs/server/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/server/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ sphinxcontrib-napoleon>=0.4.4
 sphinxcontrib-httpdomain>=1.5.0
 pyyaml~=3.12
 aafigure>=0.6
-packaging~=17.0
\ No newline at end of file
+packaging~=18.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3bb2151c..14c092dc 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ install_requires = [
     'aiohttp~=3.0',
     'bigchaindb-abci==0.5.1',
     'setproctitle~=1.1.0',
-    'packaging~=17.0',
+    'packaging~=18.0',
 ]
 
 setup(