diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f1e4df11..54b348c0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
 
 argparse
 iso8601>=0.1.9
-requests>=2.5.2
+requests!=2.8.0,>=2.5.2
 six>=1.9.0
 stevedore>=1.5.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index a82c098d..a73bfddc 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ oauthlib>=0.6
 oslo.config>=2.3.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslosphinx>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslotest>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
-os-testr>=0.1.0
+os-testr>=0.4.1
 pycrypto>=2.6
 requests-mock>=0.6.0 # Apache-2.0
 sphinx!=1.2.0,!=1.3b1,<1.3,>=1.1.2
-tempest-lib>=0.8.0
+tempest-lib>=0.9.0
 testrepository>=0.0.18
 testresources>=0.2.4
 testtools>=1.4.0