diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index dfdb8de3..de815691 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ Babel>=2.3.4 # BSD
 
 oslo.i18n>=2.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.log>=3.11.0 # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=3.17.0 # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils>=3.18.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslosphinx>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0