diff --git a/keystone/tests/unit/__init__.py b/keystone/tests/unit/__init__.py
index 9906f30cc1..29d2eff624 100644
--- a/keystone/tests/unit/__init__.py
+++ b/keystone/tests/unit/__init__.py
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
     from unittest import mock  # noqa: our import detection is naive?
 
     sys.modules['oslo'].messaging = mock.Mock()
-    sys.modules['pycadf'] = mock.Mock()
     sys.modules['paste'] = mock.Mock()
 
 # NOTE(dstanek): oslo_i18n.enable_lazy() must be called before
diff --git a/requirements-py3.txt b/requirements-py3.txt
index 7f451e9764..65d64af735 100644
--- a/requirements-py3.txt
+++ b/requirements-py3.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,5 @@ oauthlib>=0.6
 pysaml2
 dogpile.cache>=0.5.3
 jsonschema>=2.0.0,<3.0.0
-# pycadf tries to pull in eventlet
-# pycadf>=0.6.0
+pycadf>=0.8.0
 posix_ipc