diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index 2ac23dcbb2..638affda55 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ iso8601>=0.1.4
 jsonrpclib
 jsonschema>=1.0.0
 kazoo>=0.9,<=1.1
-kombu>=1.0.4
+kombu>2.4.7
 lockfile>=0.8
 lxml>=2.3
 msgpack-python