diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5fee7deeb..d7264d68a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ pytz==2017.2
 rauth==0.7.3
 requests==2.18.4
 SQLAlchemy==1.1.15
-the_conf==0.0.9
+the_conf>=0.0.8
 
 click==6.7
 itsdangerous==0.24