diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0432388f9..23c117262 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Django<1.6
-south<0.8.0
+south>=0.8,<0.9
 requests
 https://bitbucket.org/bdauvergne/django-registration-1.5/get/tip.tar.gz#egg=django-registration-0.8.0final
 django-debug-toolbar<1.0.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6a5eb48a2..380137b4e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ setup(name="authentic2",
       packages=find_packages(),
       include_package_data=True,
       install_requires=['django < 1.6',
-        'south<0.8.0',
+        'south>=0.8,<0.9',
         'requests',
         'django-registration==0.8.0final',
         'django-debug-toolbar<1.0.0'],