diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index d7e66dc..d929f11 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute virtualenv
 # avoid pip bugs
 ./virtualenv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
 
-# slightly old version of setuptools; newer fails w/ requests 0.14.0
-./virtualenv/bin/pip install setuptools==32.3.1
+# latest setuptools supporting python 2.7
+./virtualenv/bin/pip install setuptools==44.1.0
 
 ./virtualenv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 606e392..bb500f2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ bunch >=1.0.0
 # 0.14 switches to libev, that means bootstrap needs to change too
 gevent >=1.0
 isodate >=0.4.4
-requests >=0.14.0
+requests >=2.23.0
 pytz >=2011k
 ordereddict
 httplib2