diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 93a1f448d18f..09e06cddac25 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ oslo.concurrency>=0.1.0  # Apache-2.0
 oslo.config>=1.4.0  # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.0.0               # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=1.0.0                       # Apache-2.0
-oslo.db>=1.0.0  # Apache-2.0
+oslo.db>=1.1.0  # Apache-2.0
 oslo.rootwrap>=1.3.0
 pycadf>=0.6.0
 oslo.messaging>=1.4.0