diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index d059ed931..7a26203ba 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Dependencies
 ------------
 
 * Drop python 3.5 support
+* Drop docutils 0.12 and 0.13 support
 
 Incompatible changes
 --------------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8c1afb340..1fb0c5d79 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ install_requires = [
     'sphinxcontrib-qthelp',
     'Jinja2>=2.3',
     'Pygments>=2.0',
-    'docutils>=0.12',
+    'docutils>=0.14',
     'snowballstemmer>=1.1',
     'babel>=1.3',
     'alabaster>=0.7,<0.8',