diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 495e7276..77290c7e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 # process, which may cause wedges in the gate later.
 pbr>=1.8 # Apache-2.0
 PrettyTable<0.8,>=0.7.1 # BSD
-requests>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
+requests!=2.12.2,>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 simplejson>=2.2.0 # MIT
 oslo.i18n>=2.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.18.0 # Apache-2.0
 Babel>=2.3.4 # BSD
 keystoneauth1>=2.14.0 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
-python-swiftclient>=2.2.0 # Apache-2.0
+python-swiftclient>=3.2.0 # Apache-2.0
 python-mistralclient>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0