diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fb0cd9774..0d77faf44 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ pecan>=1.0.0
 Pint>=0.5 # BSD
 psutil<2.0.0,>=1.1.1
 pyudev
-requests!=2.8.0,>=2.5.2
+requests>=2.8.1
 six>=1.9.0
 stevedore>=1.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 WSME>=0.8