diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c329bf57c7..1155bc84cf 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ cryptography!=1.3.0,>=1.0 # BSD/Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
 SQLAlchemy<1.1.0,>=1.0.10 # MIT
 sqlalchemy-migrate>=0.9.6 # Apache-2.0
-stevedore>=1.16.0 # Apache-2.0
+stevedore>=1.17.1 # Apache-2.0
 passlib>=1.6 # BSD
 python-keystoneclient!=2.1.0,>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 keystonemiddleware!=4.5.0,>=4.2.0 # Apache-2.0