diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index eccb06380..de805b7ef 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ A development egg can be found `here
 <http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/get/tip.gz#egg=Sphinx-dev>`_.
 '''
 
-requires = ['Pygments>=0.8', 'Jinja2>=2.2', 'docutils>=0.4']
+requires = ['Pygments>=0.8', 'Jinja2>=2.2', 'docutils>=0.5']
 
 if sys.version_info < (2, 4):
     print 'ERROR: Sphinx requires at least Python 2.4 to run.'