diff --git a/appengine/standard/django/requirements.txt b/appengine/standard/django/requirements.txt
index 6da4b3c39bfd..c2ce48c9fb5e 100644
--- a/appengine/standard/django/requirements.txt
+++ b/appengine/standard/django/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 PyMySQL==0.9.3
-Django<2.0.0,>=1.11.8
+Django==1.11.28 # needs to stay under 2.0.0 for Python 2 support