diff --git a/conf/distros/rhel.yaml b/conf/distros/rhel.yaml
index ac6899f5..66e88a92 100644
--- a/conf/distros/rhel.yaml
+++ b/conf/distros/rhel.yaml
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ components:
                 - "-U"
             removable: false
         -   name: requests
+            version: '0.14.2' # 1.0 seemed to introduce new backwayd incompatible changes, not cool!!
         # Need this or nova pukes with 'Did not recognize type 'BIGINT' of column 'bw_in''
         -   name: sqlalchemy
             version: "0.7.9"