diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0a0d5e9a6..2571ba2ea 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ setuptools>=18.5			# Require this first, to prevent later errors
 #
 anora>=0.1.2
 argon2-cffi>=16.1.0		# For the Argon2 password hasher option
-beautifulsoup4>=4.4
+beautifulsoup4>=4.5.0
 bibtexparser>=0.6.2,<1.0	# Version 1.0 doesn't work under python 2.7.  1.0.1 doesn't recognize month names or abbreviations.
 bleach>=2.0.0
 coverage>=4.0.1,!=4.0.2
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ django-widget-tweaks>=1.3
 docutils>=0.12                  
 factory-boy>=2.9.0
 google-api-python-client
-Faker!=0.8.9,!=0.8.10		# from factory-boy # Faker 0.8.9,0.8.10 sometimes return string names instead of unicode.
+Faker>=0.8.8,!=0.8.9,!=0.8.10		# from factory-boy # Faker 0.8.9,0.8.10 sometimes return string names instead of unicode.
 hashids>=1.1.0
 html5lib>=1.0.1
 httplib2>=0.10.3