diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 35d2396d31..80b2599d29 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Babel>=1.3
 cliff>=1.7.0  # Apache-2.0
 cliff-tablib>=1.0
 oslo.i18n>=1.0.0  # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=1.1.0                       # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils>=1.2.0                       # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.0.0               # Apache-2.0
 python-glanceclient>=0.15.0
 python-keystoneclient>=0.11.1