diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 1218fec2..fea73355 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -13,12 +13,13 @@ commands =
         nosetests {posargs}
 
 [testenv:py27]
-# TODO: this is only here to avoid latest SA-Utils on python2.7
+# TODO: this is only here to avoid "latest" packages which break us on python2.7
 deps =
         coverage
         fixture
         mock
         nose
+        SQLAlchemy<1.3
         SQLAlchemy-Utils<0.36.7
 
 [testenv:coverage]