diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 47bf17ef0..7d3bcb95c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pbr>=0.6,<1.0
 Babel>=1.3
-SQLAlchemy>=0.7.8,<=0.8.99
+SQLAlchemy>=0.7.8,<=0.9.99
 anyjson>=0.3.3
 eventlet>=0.13.0
 PasteDeploy>=1.5.0
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 84fa7971d..8aa25102d 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,3 @@ sphinx>=1.1.2,<1.2
 requests>=1.1
 testtools>=0.9.34
 mock>=1.0
-
-# Optional packages that should be installed when testing
-xattr>=0.4