diff --git a/changes/VERSION_COMPAT b/changes/VERSION_COMPAT
index 0bb331afb586ae7a0960b2d81277c1a113a5332e..cc00ecf758435881eb726f20b30b07c1e061ba96 100644
--- a/changes/VERSION_COMPAT
+++ b/changes/VERSION_COMPAT
@@ -8,4 +8,3 @@
 #
 # BEGIN DEPENDENCY LIST -------------------------
 # leap.foo.bar>=x.y.z
-leap.common>=0.4
diff --git a/pkg/requirements.pip b/pkg/requirements.pip
index 11c4229025bb2d4fe4aa497a877c2294f31a6774..c81c1a1c9e5b143015123ddf738381a9e7a9d7e4 100644
--- a/pkg/requirements.pip
+++ b/pkg/requirements.pip
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-leap.common>=0.3.7
+leap.common>=0.4.0
 simplejson
 requests
 # if we bump the gnupg version, bump also the sanity check