diff --git a/etc/requirements_dev.txt b/etc/requirements_dev.txt
index 08d7136a..1c05d119 100644
--- a/etc/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/etc/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 nose==1.3.7
 nose-parameterized==0.5.0
 nose-ignore-docstring==0.2
--e git://github.com/python-excel/xlrd.git@b9239bf2bfc42e088dd2a75c22164757cca9cc4f#egg=xlrd-master
+xlrd==0.9.4
 
 # These are required by mock or its dependencies
 MarkupSafe==0.23