diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b0df18b..d2f13a5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 oslo.log>=3.36.0 # Apache-2.0
 stestr>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization!=2.19.1,>=2.18.0 # Apache-2.0
-oslo.utils>=4.7.0 # Apache-2.0
+oslo.utils>=7.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 fixtures>=3.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD
 PyYAML>=3.12 # MIT
 python-subunit>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0/BSD