diff --git a/hbp_nrp_distributed_nest/requirements.txt b/hbp_nrp_distributed_nest/requirements.txt
index 57119afadaf3ffc333e744ffd30e24f9488188a8..3b4fe848bb14faadd96c21d97b5e2376b9cb776c 100644
--- a/hbp_nrp_distributed_nest/requirements.txt
+++ b/hbp_nrp_distributed_nest/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # third party requirements
-future==0.18.2
-mpi4py==2.0.0
+future
+mpi4py==3.0.3