diff --git a/ci/deps/travis-36.yaml b/ci/deps/travis-36.yaml
index 8aa551f6194d9..1880fa2501581 100644
--- a/ci/deps/travis-36.yaml
+++ b/ci/deps/travis-36.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ dependencies:
   - fastparquet
   - flake8>=3.5
   - flake8-comprehensions
-  - flake8-rst
+  - flake8-rst=0.4.2
   - gcsfs
   - geopandas
   - html5lib
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index f66625e6a60c7..742b974566577 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ dependencies:
   - Cython>=0.28.2
   - flake8
   - flake8-comprehensions
-  - flake8-rst
+  - flake8-rst=0.4.2
   - hypothesis>=3.58.0
   - isort
   - moto
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 93145d948c218..9acfe243d22fb 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ pytz
 Cython>=0.28.2
 flake8
 flake8-comprehensions
-flake8-rst
+flake8-rst==0.4.2
 hypothesis>=3.58.0
 isort
 moto