diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9c295dc4..7264f249 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ setup(
         'sphinx',
         'Babel',
         'argparse',
-        'webtest',
+        'webtest<2',
         'ConfigObj',
         'Markdown',
         'sqlalchemy>=0.7.0',