diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 353422242..96ab8369a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ netaddr!=0.7.16,>=0.7.13 # BSD
 neutron-lib>=1.2.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.config!=3.18.0,>=3.14.0 # Apache-2.0
 ovs>=2.6.1 # Apache-2.0
-pbr>=1.8 # Apache-2.0
+pbr>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 tenacity>=3.2.1 # Apache-2.0
 Babel>=2.3.4 # BSD
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 782bb21f0..566d84432 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ except ImportError:
     pass
 
 setuptools.setup(
-    setup_requires=['pbr>=1.8'],
+    setup_requires=['pbr>=2.0.0'],
     pbr=True)