diff --git a/tests/requirements/base.txt b/tests/requirements/base.txt
index ee72121d52..6ee885e13c 100644
--- a/tests/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements/base.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Pillow
 PyYAML
 # pylibmc/libmemcached can't be built on Windows.
 pylibmc; sys.platform != 'win32'
+python-memcached >= 1.59
 pytz
 selenium
 sqlparse
diff --git a/tests/requirements/py2.txt b/tests/requirements/py2.txt
index 0ed845bb7e..43719a354f 100644
--- a/tests/requirements/py2.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements/py2.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 -r base.txt
 enum34
-# Due to https://github.com/linsomniac/python-memcached/issues/79 in newer versions.
-python-memcached <= 1.53
 mock
diff --git a/tests/requirements/py3.txt b/tests/requirements/py3.txt
index ced3eed101..a3e81b8dcf 100644
--- a/tests/requirements/py3.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements/py3.txt
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 -r base.txt
-python3-memcached