diff --git a/_extensions/odoo/__init__.py b/_extensions/odoo/__init__.py
index 13dcf557e..e3473c996 100644
--- a/_extensions/odoo/__init__.py
+++ b/_extensions/odoo/__init__.py
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ def setup(app):
     app.connect('html-page-context', update_meta)
 
 def update_meta(app, pagename, templatename, context, doctree):
-    meta = context.setdefault('meta', {})
+    if not context.get('meta'):  # context['meta'] can be None
+        context['meta'] = {}
+    meta = context.setdefault('meta', {})  # we want {} by default
     meta.setdefault('banner', app.config.odoo_cover_default)
 
 def navbarify(node, navbar=None):
diff --git a/_extensions/odoo/pycompat.py b/_extensions/odoo/pycompat.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 804a2a0ba..000000000
--- a/_extensions/odoo/pycompat.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-import sys
-
-PY2 = sys.version_info[0] == 2
-
-if PY2:
-    text_type = unicode
-else:
-    text_type = str
-
-def to_text(source):
-    """ Generates a text value (an instance of text_type) from an arbitrary 
-    source.
-
-    * False and None are converted to empty strings
-    * text is passed through
-    * bytes are decoded as UTF-8
-    * rest is textified via the current version's relevant data model method
-    """
-    if source is None or source is False:
-        return u''
-
-    if isinstance(source, bytes):
-        return source.decode('utf-8')
-
-    return text_type(source)
-
diff --git a/_extensions/odoo/translator.py b/_extensions/odoo/translator.py
index 769496f8a..e3ee8bcf1 100644
--- a/_extensions/odoo/translator.py
+++ b/_extensions/odoo/translator.py
@@ -2,14 +2,11 @@
 import os.path
 import posixpath
 import re
-import urllib
 
 from docutils import nodes
 from sphinx import addnodes, util
 from sphinx.locale import admonitionlabels
 
-from . import pycompat
-
 try:
     from urllib import url2pathname
 except ImportError:
@@ -58,6 +55,7 @@ class BootstrapTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor, object):
         self.context = []
         self.section_level = 0
 
+        self.config = builder.config
         self.highlightlang = self.highlightlang_base = self.builder.config.highlight_language
         self.highlightopts = getattr(builder.config, 'highlight_options', {})
 
@@ -67,7 +65,7 @@ class BootstrapTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor, object):
         self.param_separator = ','
 
     def encode(self, text):
-        return pycompat.to_text(text).translate({
+        return text.strip().translate({
             ord('&'): u'&',
             ord('<'): u'&lt;',
             ord('"'): u'&quot;',
@@ -76,7 +74,7 @@ class BootstrapTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor, object):
         })
 
     def starttag(self, node, tagname, **attributes):
-        tagname = pycompat.to_text(tagname).lower()
+        tagname = tagname.strip().lower()
 
         # extract generic attributes
         attrs = {name.lower(): value for name, value in attributes.items()}
@@ -111,7 +109,7 @@ class BootstrapTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor, object):
     # only "space characters" SPACE, CHARACTER TABULATION, LINE FEED,
     # FORM FEED and CARRIAGE RETURN should be collapsed, not al White_Space
     def attval(self, value, whitespace=re.compile(u'[ \t\n\f\r]')):
-        return self.encode(whitespace.sub(u' ', pycompat.to_text(value)))
+        return self.encode(whitespace.sub(u' ', value.strip()))
 
     def astext(self):
         return u''.join(self.body)
@@ -647,7 +645,7 @@ class BootstrapTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor, object):
             self.body.append(title if title else util.nodes.clean_astext(env.titles[ref]))
             self.body.append(u'</h2>')
 
-            entries = [(title, ref)] if not toc else ((e[0], e[1]) for e in toc[0]['entries'])
+            entries = [(title, ref)] if not toc else ((e[0], e[1]) for e in list(toc)[0]['entries'])
             for subtitle, subref in entries:
                 baseuri = self.builder.get_target_uri(node['parent'])
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..93abfad67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Sphinx>=2.4.0
+Werkzeug==0.14.1