diff --git a/meta-stx-distro/conf/distro/include/stx-preferred-vers.inc b/meta-stx-distro/conf/distro/include/stx-preferred-vers.inc
index 511ff1c..407c3b6 100644
--- a/meta-stx-distro/conf/distro/include/stx-preferred-vers.inc
+++ b/meta-stx-distro/conf/distro/include/stx-preferred-vers.inc
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ PREFERRED_VERSION_drbd-utils = "8.4.3rc1"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_python-pyyaml = "3.13"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_python-cmd2 = "0.6.8"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_python-expect = "4.6.0"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_python-pika = "0.10.0%"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_python-pika = "1.1.0"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_python-keyring = "5.3"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_python-barbican = "8.0.%"
 PREFERRED_VERSION_python-keystone = "16.0.%"