diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 266e01732..fcd53ba0d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ iso8601>=0.1.9
 oslo.serialization>=1.0.0               # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=1.0.0                       # Apache-2.0
 PrettyTable>=0.7,<0.8
-requests>=1.2.1,!=2.4.0
+requests>=2.2.0,!=2.4.0
 simplejson>=2.2.0
 six>=1.7.0
 Babel>=1.3