diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4ceac45b..f320e92c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ setup(
         'PasteScript',
         'wtforms',
         'py-bcrypt',
-        'pytest',
+        'pytest>=2.3',
         'pytest-xdist',
         'werkzeug>=0.7',
         'celery==2.5.3',