diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7ec65a83ff38..e1ae2bb7e3a4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 pbr>=0.6,!=0.7,<1.0
 SQLAlchemy>=0.9.7,<=0.9.99
-anyjson>=0.3.3
 argparse
 boto>=2.32.1,<2.35.0
 decorator>=3.4.0
@@ -21,7 +20,6 @@ sqlalchemy-migrate>=0.9.1,!=0.9.2
 netaddr>=0.7.12
 suds>=0.4
 paramiko>=1.13.0
-posix_ipc
 pyasn1
 Babel>=1.3
 iso8601>=0.1.9
@@ -39,11 +37,8 @@ oslo.serialization>=1.2.0               # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=1.2.0                       # Apache-2.0
 oslo.db>=1.3.0  # Apache-2.0
 oslo.rootwrap>=1.3.0
-pycadf>=0.6.0
 oslo.messaging>=1.4.0,!=1.5.0
 oslo.i18n>=1.0.0  # Apache-2.0
-lockfile>=0.8
-simplejson>=2.2.0
 rfc3986>=0.2.0  # Apache-2.0
 oslo.vmware>=0.8.0                      # Apache-2.0
 oslo.middleware>=0.3.0                  # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 12f8238d7e3c..4921ef1bb17b 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 hacking>=0.10.0,<0.11
 coverage>=3.6
 discover
-feedparser
 fixtures>=0.3.14
 libvirt-python>=1.2.5                   # LGPLv2+
 mock>=1.0