diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fb54d41ba..fe52685f7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ coverage>=4.0.1,!=4.0.2
 #cssselect>=0.6.1               # for PyQuery
 decorator>=3.4.0
 defusedxml>=0.4.1		# for TastyPie when ussing xml; not a declared dependency
-Django>=1.7.10,<1.8
+Django>=1.8.16,<1.9
 django-bootstrap3>=5.1.1,<7.0.0 # django-bootstrap 7.0 requires django 1.8
 django-markup>=1.1
 django-tastypie>=0.13.1