diff --git a/ietf/nomcom/factories.py b/ietf/nomcom/factories.py
index 1f41466a0..ef46291b8 100644
--- a/ietf/nomcom/factories.py
+++ b/ietf/nomcom/factories.py
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ class FeedbackFactory(factory.DjangoModelFactory):
 
     @factory.post_generation
     def comments(obj, create, extracted, **kwargs):
-        comment_text = factory.Faker('paragraph').generate()
+        comment_text = factory.Faker('paragraph').generate({})
         obj.comments = obj.nomcom.encrypt(comment_text)
 
 class TopicFactory(factory.DjangoModelFactory):
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b90e5c320..57818cc73 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Trac>=1.0.10,<1.2
 typing>=3.7.4.1
 Unidecode>=0.4.18
 #wsgiref>=0.1.2
-xml2rfc>=2.9.3,!=2.6.0
+xml2rfc>=2.35.0
 xym==0.4.2,<1.0
 #zxcvbn-python>=4.4.14		# Not needed until we do back-end password entropy validation