diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 4f42966..31e2b7b 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ flake8<2.6.0,>=2.5.4 # MIT
 hacking!=0.13.0,<0.14,>=0.12.0 # Apache-2.0
 coverage!=4.4,>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 mock>=2.0 # BSD
-pylint==1.7.1 # GPLv2
+pylint==1.4.5 # GPLv2
 python-subunit>=0.0.18 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 sphinx!=1.6.1,>=1.5.1 # BSD
 oslosphinx>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0