diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c791e05..5739db8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ PySocks>=1.7.0
 requests>=2.22.0
 requests-futures>=1.0.0
 soupsieve>=1.9.2
-stem>=1.7.1
+-e git+https://git.torproject.org/stem.git@b5aecb7#egg=stem
 torrequest>=0.1.0