diff --git a/docs/requirements-docs.txt b/docs/requirements-docs.txt
index 60c81fed6e8..dbe6e097caf 100644
--- a/docs/requirements-docs.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements-docs.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-# We pin numpydoc to avoid doubly-escaped *args and **kwargs in rendered docs
-# due to a weird interaction between sphinx autosummary and numpydoc >= 0.9.0
-numpydoc==0.8.0
+numpydoc
 sphinx
 dask-sphinx-theme>=1.1.0
 sphinx-click