diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 153b6190bd..7c48236924 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Paste
 PasteDeploy>=1.5.0
 pbr>=0.5.16,<0.6
 pecan>=0.2.0
-pip>=1.1
+pip>=1.0
 PrettyTable>=0.6,<0.8
 psutil<1.0
 pyasn1