diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9800e57e9..16ab57843 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ SQLAlchemy<1.1.0,>=0.9.9
 enum34;python_version=='2.7' or python_version=='2.6'
 trollius>=1.0
 autobahn>=0.10.1 # MIT License
-requests>=2.5.2
+requests!=2.8.0,>=2.5.2
 futurist>=0.1.2 # Apache-2.0