diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c5378766c..fb5598e33 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ PrettyTable>=0.6,<0.8
 requests>=1.1
 simplejson>=2.0.9
 six
-oslo.config>=1.1.0
+-f http://tarballs.openstack.org/oslo.config/oslo.config-1.2.0a3.tar.gz#egg=oslo.config-1.2.0a3
+oslo.config>=1.2.0a3
 netaddr