diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 42bcda2..ab8c9e2 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ all =
     synapseclient~=2.7
     fs-synapse~=1.0
     sevenbridges-python~=2.9
-    requests~=2.28
+    requests~=2.5
     urllib3<2.0
 
 # Dependencies for testing (used by tox and Pipenv)