diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 015cd09e5..3e76b428d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ oslo.messaging>=1.4.0,!=1.5.0
 oslo.middleware>=0.3.0                  # Apache-2.0
 oslo.rootwrap>=1.3.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.0.0               # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=1.1.0                       # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils>=1.2.0                       # Apache-2.0
 Paste
 PasteDeploy>=1.5.0
 pbr>=0.6,!=0.7,<1.0