diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0adfd7b..79ee525 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ urwid>=1.2.1,!=1.3.0
 SQLAlchemy>=0.9.4
 GitPython>=0.3.2.RC1
 python-dateutil
-requests!=2.5.0
+requests>=2.5.3,<3.0.0
 ordereddict
 alembic>=0.6.4
 PyYAML>=3.1.0