diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 77a59d52cf7..a26b74e255d 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
           'docutils',
           'feedparser',
           'gdata',
-          'lxml',
+          'lxml < 3',
           'mako',
           'psycopg2',
           'pydot',