diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
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--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Version history
 HappyBase 0.3 (not yet released)
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-* Lower Thrift dependency to 0.7
+* Lower Thrift dependency to 0.6
 * Documentation improvements
 
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 46ff72f..eff3f85 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-thrift>=0.7.0
+thrift>=0.6.0
 nose
 sphinx