diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8b7a34280..1bab5bb8c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ jwcrypto>=0.4.0			# for signed notifications
 mimeparse>=0.1.3		# from TastyPie
 mock>=2.0.0
 MySQL-python>=1.2.5
+patch>=1.16,<2.0
 pathlib>=1.0
 pathlib2>=2.3.0
 Pillow>=3.0