diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 89dc8fde9..d1fd7dc6e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
           coverage: "--cov ./ --cov-append --cov-config setup.cfg"
         - name: py310-dev
           python: 3.10-dev
-          docutils: du16
+          docutils: du17
           os: ubuntu-latest  # required
     env:
       PYTEST_ADDOPTS: ${{ matrix.coverage }}
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 21a0faec3..38ad0febc 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ deps =
     du14: docutils==0.14
     du15: docutils==0.15
     du16: docutils==0.16
+    du17: docutils==0.17b1
 extras =
     test
 setenv =