diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9aca5f775..947eccc2c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ decorator>=3.4.0
 defusedxml>=0.4.1		# for TastyPie when ussing xml; not a declared dependency
 Django>=1.10,<1.11
 django-bcrypt>=0.9.2		# for the BCrypt password hasher option.  Remove when all bcrypt upgraded to argon2
-django-bootstrap3>=7.0
+django-bootstrap3>=7.0,<9.0.0
 django-formtools>=1.0		# instead of django.contrib.formtools in 1.8
 django-markup>=1.1
 django-password-strength>=1.2.1