diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2672a9883..0edce9a4e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ oslo.i18n>=2.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 positional>=1.0.1 # Apache-2.0
-requests!=2.9.0,>=2.8.1 # Apache-2.0
+requests>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
 stevedore>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0