diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 14b9ac8a9393e..7b5f3e380c4d3 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ pyreadstat
 tabulate>=0.8.3
 natsort
 git+https://github.com/pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme.git@master
-numpydoc < 1.2
+numpydoc < 1.5
 pandas-dev-flaker==0.2.0
 types-python-dateutil
 types-PyMySQL