diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ada7483e..1bcb7849 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 iso8601
 six
 kazoo>=2.0
-kafka-python>=0.9.1,<1.0
+kafka-python>=0.9.5,<1.0
 PyMySQL>=0.6.7
 oslo.config
 pbr