diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 8f9c56df..e601fec1 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-sphinx>=4.0.0,<5.0.0
+sphinx
 sphinx_rtd_theme
 dwave-greedy==0.3.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dwave/system/utilities.py b/dwave/system/utilities.py
index 50747a94..63fa8af1 100644
--- a/dwave/system/utilities.py
+++ b/dwave/system/utilities.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import os
 import json
 import networkx as nx
+import warnings
 
 __all__ = ['common_working_graph', 'classproperty']
 
@@ -60,6 +61,9 @@ def common_working_graph(graph0, graph1):
         >>> p3_working_graph = common_working_graph(P3, sampler.adjacency)   
 
     """
+    warnings.warn("dwave.system.common_working_graph() is deprecated as of dwave-system 1.23.0 "
+                  "and will be removed in dwave-system 2.0. Use networkx.intersection() instead.",
+                  DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
 
     G = nx.Graph()
     G.add_nodes_from(v for v in graph0 if v in graph1)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7eaf071c..257c5ce3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
                     'dwave-cloud-client>=0.11.0,<0.13.0',
                     'dwave-networkx>=0.8.10',
                     'dwave-preprocessing>=0.5.0',
-                    'networkx>=2.0,<3.0',
                     'homebase>=1.0.0,<2.0.0',
                     'minorminer>=0.2.8,<0.3.0',
                     'numpy>=1.21.6',   # minimum inherited from minorminer
diff --git a/tests/test_utilities.py b/tests/test_utilities.py
index 233178b7..03d70033 100644
--- a/tests/test_utilities.py
+++ b/tests/test_utilities.py
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ class TestCommonWorkingGraph(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_single_tile(self):
 
         G1 = dnx.chimera_graph(1)
-        G = common_working_graph(G1, G1)
+        with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
+            G = common_working_graph(G1, G1)
 
         # should have 8 nodes
         self.assertEqual(len(G), 8)
@@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ def test_c1_c2_tiles(self):
         G1 = dnx.chimera_graph(1)
         G2 = dnx.chimera_graph(2)
 
-        G = common_working_graph(G1, G1)
+        with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
+            G = common_working_graph(G1, G1)
 
         self.assertEqual(len(G), 8)
 
@@ -53,7 +55,8 @@ def test_missing_node(self):
         G1.remove_node(2)
         G2 = dnx.chimera_graph(2)
 
-        G = common_working_graph(G1, G1)
+        with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
+            G = common_working_graph(G1, G1)
 
         self.assertNotIn(2, G)
         self.assertNotIn((2, 4), G.edges())
@@ -62,7 +65,8 @@ def test_sampler_adjacency(self):
         adj = {0: {1, 2}, 1: {2}, 2: {0, 1}}
         G = dnx.chimera_graph(1)
 
-        H = common_working_graph(adj, G)
+        with self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning):
+            H = common_working_graph(adj, G)
 
         self.assertEqual(set(H.nodes), {0, 1, 2})
         self.assertEqual(set(H.edges), set())