diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 01df5fcce..51adac68e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ jsonschema!=2.5.0,<3.0.0,>=2.0.0 # MIT
 keystoneauth1>=2.14.0 # Apache-2.0
 osc-lib>=1.2.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.i18n>=2.1.0 # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=3.17.0 # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils>=3.18.0 # Apache-2.0
 PrettyTable<0.8,>=0.7.1 # BSD
 python-openstackclient>=3.3.0 # Apache-2.0
 PyYAML>=3.10.0 # MIT