diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 5dd4f004..eb628ff2 100755
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ needs_sphinx = '1.4'
 # extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
 # ones.
 extensions = [
+    'myst_parser'
 ]
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
@@ -78,14 +79,6 @@ pygments_style = 'sphinx'
 todo_include_todos = False
 
 
-# -- Source -------------------------------------------------------------
-
-source_parsers = {
-    '.md': 'recommonmark.parser.CommonMarkParser',
-}
-
-source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
-
 # -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
 
 # The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 2d1d7df1..e3626352 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 docker
+myst-parser
 pre-commit
 pytest
-recommonmark
 requests
 sphinx>=1.6
 sphinx-intl