diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 09895412..08232b5d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-pbr>=0.5.21,<1.0
+# The order of packages is significant, because pip processes them in the order
+# of appearance. Changing the order has an impact on the overall integration
+# process, which may cause wedges in the gate later.
+pbr>=0.6,!=0.7,<1.0
 
 anyjson>=0.3.3
 argparse
@@ -6,20 +9,20 @@ Babel>=1.3
 # The egg=tripleo-heat-templates suffix is needed by pbr's requirements
 # processing code
 http://tarballs.openstack.org/tripleo-heat-templates/tripleo-heat-templates-master.tar.gz#egg=tripleo_heat_templates
-eventlet>=0.13.0
+eventlet>=0.15.1
 greenlet>=0.3.2
-iso8601>=0.1.8
+iso8601>=0.1.9
 kombu>=2.4.8
 lxml>=2.3
-oslo.config>=1.2.0
-oslo.db>=0.3.0
-pecan>=0.2.0
+oslo.config>=1.4.0.0a3
+oslo.db>=0.4.0  # Apache-2.0
+pecan>=0.5.0
 posix_ipc
-python-heatclient>=0.2.3
-python-keystoneclient>=0.4.1
+python-heatclient>=0.2.9
+python-keystoneclient>=0.10.0
 PyYAML>=3.1.0
-six>=1.4.1
+six>=1.7.0
 SQLAlchemy>=0.8.4,<=0.8.99,>=0.9.7,<=0.9.99
-sqlalchemy-migrate>=0.8.2
-WebOb>=1.2.3,<1.3
-WSME>=0.5b6
+sqlalchemy-migrate>=0.9.1,!=0.9.2
+WebOb>=1.2.3
+WSME>=0.6
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c0a24eab..73637574 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,8 +14,17 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+# THIS FILE IS MANAGED BY THE GLOBAL REQUIREMENTS REPO - DO NOT EDIT
 import setuptools
 
+# In python < 2.7.4, a lazy loading of package `pbr` will break
+# setuptools if some other modules registered functions in `atexit`.
+# solution from: http://bugs.python.org/issue15881#msg170215
+try:
+    import multiprocessing  # noqa
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
 setuptools.setup(
     setup_requires=['pbr'],
     pbr=True)
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index eac435a0..b560344a 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# The order of packages is significant, because pip processes them in the order
+# of appearance. Changing the order has an impact on the overall integration
+# process, which may cause wedges in the gate later.
 # Hacking already pins down pep8, pyflakes and flake8
 hacking>=0.9.2,<0.10
 
@@ -5,11 +8,11 @@ coverage>=3.6
 discover
 fixtures>=0.3.14
 mock>=1.0
-oslotest
+oslotest>=1.1.0.0a2
 # Doc requirements
-sphinx>=1.1.2,<1.2
-sphinxcontrib-pecanwsme>=0.5
+sphinx>=1.1.2,!=1.2.0,<1.3
+sphinxcontrib-pecanwsme>=0.8
 stevedore>=0.14
-testrepository>=0.0.17
-testtools>=0.9.32
+testrepository>=0.0.18
+testtools>=0.9.34
 unittest2