diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index abc595af71..95d92e69f9 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ WebTest>=2.0 # MIT
 reno>=1.8.0 # Apache-2.0
 bandit>=1.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 tempest>=14.0.0 # Apache-2.0
-pylint==1.7.1 # GPLv2
+pylint==1.4.5 # GPLv2
 python-openstackclient>=3.3.0 # Apache-2.0
 requests-mock>=1.1 # Apache-2.0
 pyshark>=0.3.7.2 # pyshark