diff --git a/docs/contributing/requirements.txt b/docs/contributing/requirements.txt
index 08bb8d75..d2406438 100644
--- a/docs/contributing/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/contributing/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Sphinx>=1.4.8
+Sphinx~=1.0
 recommonmark>=0.4.0
 sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.1.9
 wget
diff --git a/docs/root/requirements.txt b/docs/root/requirements.txt
index 4321f44b..b092a32c 100644
--- a/docs/root/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/root/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Sphinx>=1.4.8
+Sphinx~=1.0
 recommonmark>=0.4.0
 sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.1.9
 sphinxcontrib-napoleon>=0.4.4
diff --git a/docs/server/requirements.txt b/docs/server/requirements.txt
index 54e2cd4d..c9fa59e6 100644
--- a/docs/server/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/server/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Sphinx>=1.4.8
+Sphinx~=1.0
 recommonmark>=0.4.0
 sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.1.9
 sphinxcontrib-napoleon>=0.4.4
 sphinxcontrib-httpdomain>=1.5.0
-pyyaml>=3.12
+pyyaml~=3.12
 aafigure>=0.6