diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 3f985707..b9da0082 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 # Hacking already pins down pep8, pyflakes and flake8
 hacking<0.11,>=0.10.0
-Babel>=1.3 # BSD
+Babel!=2.3.0,!=2.3.1,!=2.3.2,!=2.3.3,>=1.3 # BSD
 contextlib2>=0.4.0 # PSF License
 coverage>=3.6 # Apache-2.0
 elasticsearch<2.0,>=1.3.0 # Apache-2.0