diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 7b14b306..e000750a 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ html5lib  # needed for beautifulsoup
 mock
 notebook
 pre-commit
+pytest>=3.3
 pytest-asyncio
 pytest-cov
-pytest>=3.3
 requests-mock
 # blacklist urllib3 releases affected by https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/1683
 # I *think* this should only affect testing, not production
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 2d9da795..1e5874f5 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ https://github.com/jupyterhub/autodoc-traits/archive/75885ee24636efbfebfceed1043
 pydata-sphinx-theme
 pytablewriter>=0.56
 recommonmark>=0.6
+sphinx>=1.7
 sphinx-copybutton
 sphinx-jsonschema
-sphinx>=1.7