diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index bb4eb7119e..5d8960db20 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SQLAlchemy>=0.7.8,<=0.7.9
-Cheetah==2.4.4
+Cheetah>=2.4.4
 amqplib>=0.6.1
 anyjson>=0.2.4
 argparse