diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 854e9df..88154bc 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ pbr>=0.6,!=0.7,<1.0
 Babel>=1.3
 oslo.config>=1.4.0.0a3
 iso8601>=0.1.9
-requests>=1.1
+requests>=1.2.1
 python-keystoneclient>=0.10.0
 PyYAML>=3.1.0
 stevedore>=0.14