diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 98a3e42a5f..79074e6156 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ netaddr!=0.7.16,>=0.7.13 # BSD
 oslo.cache>=1.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.config!=3.18.0,>=3.14.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.concurrency>=3.8.0 # Apache-2.0
-oslo.context>=2.9.0 # Apache-2.0
+oslo.context>=2.12.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.db>=4.15.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.i18n>=2.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.log>=3.11.0 # Apache-2.0
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ python-troveclient>=2.2.0 # Apache-2.0
 python-zaqarclient>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 pytz>=2013.6 # MIT
 PyYAML>=3.10.0 # MIT
-requests!=2.12.2,>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
+requests!=2.12.2,!=2.13.0,>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 tenacity>=3.2.1 # Apache-2.0
 Routes!=2.0,!=2.1,!=2.3.0,>=1.12.3;python_version=='2.7' # MIT
 Routes!=2.0,!=2.3.0,>=1.12.3;python_version!='2.7' # MIT
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 43306ea12a..084b450b96 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ hacking<0.11,>=0.10.0
 bandit>=1.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 coverage>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 fixtures>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
-kombu<4.0.0,>=3.0.25 # BSD
+kombu>=3.0.25 # BSD
 mock>=2.0 # BSD
 mox3!=0.19.0,>=0.7.0 # Apache-2.0
 PyMySQL>=0.7.6 # MIT License
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ oslosphinx>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslotest>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 qpid-python;python_version=='2.7' # Apache-2.0
 psycopg2>=2.5 # LGPL/ZPL
-sphinx!=1.3b1,<1.4,>=1.2.1 # BSD
+sphinx>=1.5.1 # BSD
 testrepository>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testscenarios>=0.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 testtools>=1.4.0 # MIT
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ reno>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 # Next are used in integration tests only
 os-collect-config # Apache-2.0
 paramiko>=2.0 # LGPLv2.1+
-tempest>=12.1.0 # Apache-2.0
+tempest>=14.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 gabbi>=1.26.1 # Apache-2.0