diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 056c16c2..d8080d05 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ except ImportError:
     pass
 
 setuptools.setup(
-    setup_requires=['pbr'],
+    setup_requires=['pbr>=1.3'],
     pbr=True)
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 72613130..1c7bddcf 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ python-subunit>=0.0.18
 testrepository>=0.0.18
 testscenarios>=0.4
 testtools>=1.4.0
-oslotest>=1.5.1 # Apache-2.0
+oslotest>=1.7.0 # Apache-2.0
 
 # when we can require tox>= 1.4, this can go into tox.ini:
 #  [testenv:cover]