diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 182c73bfe..680058b12 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ oslo.concurrency>=3.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.log>=1.14.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.service>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=3.15.0 # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils>=3.16.0 # Apache-2.0
 pecan>=1.0.0 # BSD
 Pint>=0.5 # BSD
 psutil<2.0.0,>=1.1.1 # BSD