diff --git a/docs/using.rst b/docs/using.rst
index bb27ad8c2..e377e74ab 100644
--- a/docs/using.rst
+++ b/docs/using.rst
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ backslash):
 .. code-block:: shell
 
    SWIG_FEATURES="-includeall -D__`uname -m`__-I/usr/include/openssl" \
-   ./venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt functools32 .
+   ./venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt .
 
 
 Installation
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ebcc2c9b3..46f53244c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ install_requires = [
     'argparse',
     'ConfigArgParse',
     'configobj',
-    'jsonschema',
+    'jsonschema<2.5.1',  # https://github.com/Julian/jsonschema/issues/233
     'mock',
     'ndg-httpsclient',  # urllib3 InsecurePlatformWarning (#304)
     'parsedatetime',
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ install_requires = [
     # order of items in install_requires DOES matter and M2Crypto has
     # to go last, see #152
     'M2Crypto',
-    'functools32'
 ]
 
 dev_extras = [