diff --git a/lower-constraints.txt b/lower-constraints.txt
index 44b2d9e3e..efecbe367 100644
--- a/lower-constraints.txt
+++ b/lower-constraints.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 alembic==0.9.8
+# only need to speed up the pip version resolution
+amqp==2.5.0
 appdirs==1.4.3
 attrs==17.4.0
 bandit==1.1.0
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ netifaces==0.10.4
 os-client-config==1.29.0
 os-resource-classes==1.1.0
 os-service-types==1.2.0
-os-traits==2.5.0
+os-traits==2.6.0
 oslo.concurrency==3.26.0
 oslo.config==6.7.0
 oslo.context==2.22.0
diff --git a/placement/tests/functional/gabbits/traits.yaml b/placement/tests/functional/gabbits/traits.yaml
index 1c139094a..c11588b33 100644
--- a/placement/tests/functional/gabbits/traits.yaml
+++ b/placement/tests/functional/gabbits/traits.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tests:
 - name: what is at traits
   GET: /traits
   response_json_paths:
-      $.traits.`len`: 291  #  Number of standard traits
+      $.traits.`len`: 294  #  Number of standard traits
 
 - name: create a trait without custom namespace
   PUT: /traits/TRAIT_X
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1933c1466..1986a681a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@ oslo.middleware>=3.31.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.upgradecheck>=1.3.0 # Apache-2.0
 # NOTE(efried): Sync lower-constraints.txt for os-traits & os-resource-classes.
 os-resource-classes>=1.1.0 # Apache-2.0
-os-traits>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0
+os-traits>=2.6.0 # Apache-2.0
 microversion-parse>=0.2.1 # Apache-2.0