diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 805aacea..d502ac88 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Babel>=1.3
 argparse
 PrettyTable<0.8,>=0.7
 python-keystoneclient>=1.6.0
-requests>=2.5.2
+requests!=2.8.0,>=2.5.2
 warlock<2,>=1.0.1
 six>=1.9.0
 oslo.utils>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 6f5f357c..6ce1e34b 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ testtools>=1.4.0
 testscenarios>=0.4
 fixtures>=1.3.1
 requests-mock>=0.6.0 # Apache-2.0
-tempest-lib>=0.8.0
+tempest-lib>=0.9.0