diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6f7d067a5..9d6f34133 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ html5lib==1.0b8
 ujson>=1.35
 dill>=0.2,<0.3
 requests>=2.11.0,<3.0.0
-regex==2017.7.11
+regex>=2017.4.1,<2017.12.1
 ftfy>=4.4.2,<5.0.0
 pytest>=3.0.6,<4.0.0
 pip>=9.0.0,<10.0.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 61bd6b6bb..1b127962b 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ def setup_package():
                 'ujson>=1.35',
                 'dill>=0.2,<0.3',
                 'requests>=2.13.0,<3.0.0',
-                'regex==2017.7.11',
+                'regex>=2017.4.1,<2017.12.1',
                 'ftfy>=4.4.2,<5.0.0'],
             classifiers=[
                 'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',