diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index af1ffd9..d5e0306 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ requests>=2.9.1
 vdf>=3.3
 gevent>=1.3.0
 protobuf>=3.0.0
-gevent-eventemitter>=2.1
+gevent-eventemitter~=2.1
 enum34==1.1.2; python_version < '3.4'
 PyYAML==5.1
 cachetools>=3.0.0