diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f11d1a50..46233b6f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Babel>=1.3
 netaddr>=0.7.12
 oslo.i18n>=1.0.0  # Apache-2.0
 python-keystoneclient>=0.10.0
-requests>=1.2.1,!=2.4.0
+requests>=2.2.0,!=2.4.0
 six>=1.7.0
 PrettyTable>=0.7,<0.8
 argparse