diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fb0667a1..8103654c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ kazoo>=2.2 # Apache-2.0
 kafka-python<1.0.0,>=0.9.5 # Apache-2.0
 PyMySQL!=0.7.7,>=0.6.2 # MIT License
 oslo.config!=3.18.0,>=3.14.0 # Apache-2.0
-pbr>=1.6 # Apache-2.0
+pbr>=1.8 # Apache-2.0
 ujson>=1.35 # BSD