diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 84e34e039..c18b23750 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ oslo.service>=0.7.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 Paste
 PasteDeploy>=1.5.0
-pbr<2.0,>=1.6
+pbr>=1.6
 pecan>=1.0.0
 pycrypto>=2.6
 pyOpenSSL>=0.14
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d8080d05c..782bb21f0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ except ImportError:
     pass
 
 setuptools.setup(
-    setup_requires=['pbr>=1.3'],
+    setup_requires=['pbr>=1.8'],
     pbr=True)
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 308c8e223..c9cec296f 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ testtools>=1.4.0
 fixtures>=1.3.1
 requests>=2.5.2
 python-keystoneclient>=1.6.0
-tempest-lib>=0.6.1
+tempest-lib>=0.8.0
 python-subunit>=0.0.18
 
 # Bandit build requirements