diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 0375123391d6..94635a292778 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -212,13 +212,13 @@ Required Dependencies
     Used to manipulate time-zone aware datetimes. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz
 
 :term:`FreeType` 2.3 or later
-    Library for reading true type font files. If using pip, easy_install or 
+    Library for reading true type font files. If using pip, easy_install or
     installing from source, the installer will attempt to locate FreeType in
-    expected locations. If it cannot, try installing `pkg-config 
+    expected locations. If it cannot, try installing `pkg-config
     <http://matplotlib.org/users/installing.html#optional-dependencies>`__,
     a tool used to find required non-python libraries.
 
-`cycler <http://matplotlib.org/cycler/>`__ 0.9 or later
+`cycler <http://matplotlib.org/cycler/>`__ 0.10.0 or later
    Composable cycle class used for constructing style-cycles
 
 `functools32`
diff --git a/setupext.py b/setupext.py
index d7d21549fefb..6e6705e8bd33 100755
--- a/setupext.py
+++ b/setupext.py
@@ -1380,11 +1380,10 @@ def check(self):
                 "cycler was not found. "
                 "pip/easy_install may attempt to install it "
                 "after matplotlib.")
-
         return "using cycler version %s" % cycler.__version__
 
     def get_install_requires(self):
-        return ['cycler>=0.9']
+        return ['cycler>=0.10']
 
 
 class Dateutil(SetupPackage):