diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f8066a4c..3be01867 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ PyYAML>=3.1.0
 
 suds-jurko>=0.6
 eventlet>=0.17.4
-requests!=2.8.0,>=2.5.2
+requests>=2.8.1
 urllib3>=1.8.3
 oslo.concurrency>=2.3.0 # Apache-2.0