diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 82739d1e..d2b3f9e3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ oslo.policy>=0.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.rootwrap>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.service>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=2.8.0 # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils!=3.1.0,>=2.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 paramiko>=1.13.0
 requests>=2.8.1
 python-barbicanclient>=3.3.0