diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9c4c15ff7..8f030ceab 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ pytz
 PyYAML
 raven
 requests
-rpclib==2.7.0-beta
+rpclib==2.8.0-rc
 sasl
 six>=1.10
 smbpasswd