diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 2c7ed96f70704a21043fb8126da8b701ee19483a..59e88facb7b0f933adc50a7b9eac9441f2db3bf6 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -23,11 +23,7 @@ commands =
   flake8 {posargs} kayobe
   # Check the *.rst files
   # We use a thin wrapper around doc8 currently, which has support for sphinx
-  # directives. We install sphinx 1.5.x because versions prior to this
-  # (installed due to upper constraints) automatically import all
-  # sphinx.directive.* modules when any one of those modules is imported, and
-  # importing sphinx.directive.other breaks docutils parsing.
-  pip install -U sphinx<1.6
+  # directives.
   {toxinidir}/tools/sphinx8 README.rst CONTRIBUTING.rst doc/source --ignore D001
 
 [testenv:venv]