diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c0caa3c0..6c338c96 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,5 @@ PySocks>=1.7.0
 requests>=2.22.0
 requests-futures>=1.0.0
 soupsieve>=1.9.2
-# install from git to fix RuntimeError: dictionary keys changed during iteration
-# change to stem>=1.7.2 or greater when available
--e git+https://git.torproject.org/stem.git@b5aecb7#egg=stem
+stem>=1.8.0 
 torrequest>=0.1.0