diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e86c1e763..5e2737603 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # -*- conf-mode -*-
 setuptools>=18.5			# Require this first, to prevent later errors
 #
-beautifulsoup4>=4.5.1
+beautifulsoup4>=4.4
 bibtexparser>=0.6.2
 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>=1.9,<1.10
-django-bootstrap3>=5.1.1,<7.0.0 # django-bootstrap 7.0 requires django 1.8
+django-bootstrap3>=7.0
 django-formtools>=1.0		# instead of django.contrib.formtools in 1.8
 django-markup>=1.1
 django-tastypie>=0.13.1