diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fffde2a..c1a19f9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ simplejson==3.4
 SQLAlchemy==0.9.4
 unittest2==0.5.1
 zope.component==4.2.1
+configparser==3.5.0b2
 https://github.com/mozilla-services/mozservices/archive/e00e1b68130423ad98d0f6185655bde650443da8.zip
 https://github.com/mozilla-services/tokenserver/archive/d7e513e8a4f5c588b70d685a8df1d2e508c341c0.zip
 http://github.com/mozilla-services/server-syncstorage/archive/1.5.5.zip
-# Newer releases of configparser have b/w compat bug:
-# https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver/issues/39
-configparser==3.3.0r2