diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3af20df79..05f2bd077 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ oslo.db>=1.10.0  # Apache-2.0
 oslo.log>=1.2.0  # Apache-2.0
 oslo.messaging>=1.8.0  # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.4.0               # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=1.4.0                       # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils>=1.6.0                       # Apache-2.0
 
 # This project does depend on neutron as a library, but the
 # openstack tooling does not play nicely with projects that