diff --git a/python-urllib3.changes b/python-urllib3.changes
index 73e3e42..ca0a1a5 100644
--- a/python-urllib3.changes
+++ b/python-urllib3.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Jul 22 07:54:44 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
+
+- Use old pytest 3.x as newer do not work with this release
+  * this will be fixed with next release, just spread among
+    numerous fixes in the git for quick backporting
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jun 21 06:23:36 UTC 2019 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/python-urllib3.spec b/python-urllib3.spec
index f02a1a3..7563710 100644
--- a/python-urllib3.spec
+++ b/python-urllib3.spec
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Requires:       python-backports.ssl_match_hostname
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module brotlipy}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module idna}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module mock >= 1.3.0}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest < 4.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module tornado >= 4.2.1}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module urllib3 >= %{version}}
 %endif