diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1cfa5cb169..2bf241a968 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.service>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 pecan>=1.0.0 # BSD
-requests!=2.9.0,>=2.8.1 # Apache-2.0
+requests>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
 jsonpatch>=1.1 # BSD
 WSME>=0.8 # MIT
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index b30813a60e..270d398207 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ sphinxcontrib-pecanwsme>=0.8 # Apache-2.0
 sphinxcontrib-seqdiag # BSD
 oslosphinx!=3.4.0,>=2.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 reno>=1.6.2 # Apache2
-os-api-ref>=0.1.0  # Apache-2.0
+os-api-ref>=0.1.0 # Apache-2.0