diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ setup(
         'boto',
         'jellyfish',
         'nilsimsa >= 0.3',
+        'regex != 2014.08.28',
         'chromium_compact_language_detector',
         'sortedcollection',
         'python-docx',
we should be using the new regex wherever we use `re`