diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9fc21d2ed..96aa7254b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ pbr>=0.11,<2.0
 requests>=2.5.2
 six>=1.9.0
 stevedore>=1.5.0  # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=1.4.0                       # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils>=1.6.0                       # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
old mode 100755
new mode 100644