diff --git a/placement/tests/functional/gabbits/traits.yaml b/placement/tests/functional/gabbits/traits.yaml
index 2f4086bee..486159047 100644
--- a/placement/tests/functional/gabbits/traits.yaml
+++ b/placement/tests/functional/gabbits/traits.yaml
@@ -9,11 +9,10 @@ defaults:
         openstack-api-version: placement 1.6
 
 tests:
-# FIXME(tonyb): commnet out to allow os-traits 2.8.0
-# - name: what is at traits
-#   GET: /traits
-#   response_json_paths:
-#       $.traits.`len`: 335  #  Number of standard traits
+- name: what is at traits
+  GET: /traits
+  response_json_paths:
+      $.traits.`len`: 344  #  Number of standard traits
 
 - name: create a trait without custom namespace
   PUT: /traits/TRAIT_X
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 33f2ea6e7..d57ef034f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ oslo.middleware>=3.31.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.upgradecheck>=1.3.0 # Apache-2.0
 # NOTE(efried): Sync lower-constraints.txt for os-traits & os-resource-classes.
 os-resource-classes>=1.1.0 # Apache-2.0
-os-traits>=2.7.0 # Apache-2.0
+os-traits>=2.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 microversion-parse>=0.2.1 # Apache-2.0