diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fa6c413115..9079a8d351 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ oslo.concurrency>=3.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.config>=3.14.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.log>=3.11.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=3.16.0 # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils>=3.17.0 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
 fixtures>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 PyYAML>=3.10.0 # MIT