diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2b1c0cf3ad..158e9b9895 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ httplib2
 jinja2
 markdown2
 markupsafe
-mysql-python
+mysql-python==1.2.5
 pygeoip
 python-dateutil
 python-memcached