diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index 010289137228..7c884309306a 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Cheetah==2.4.4
 amqplib==0.6.1
 anyjson==0.2.4
 boto==2.1.1
-eventlet
+eventlet>=0.9.17
 kombu==1.0.4
 lockfile==0.8
 lxml==2.3