diff --git a/playout/requirements.txt b/playout/requirements.txt
index 61a90e8bf..41c30f231 100644
--- a/playout/requirements.txt
+++ b/playout/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This file is auto-generated by tools/extract_requirements.py.
 amqplib
 defusedxml
-kombu
+kombu==4.6.11
 mutagen
 pytz
 requests
diff --git a/playout/setup.py b/playout/setup.py
index e94de12de..502b446ff 100644
--- a/playout/setup.py
+++ b/playout/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ setup(
     install_requires=[
         "amqplib",
         "defusedxml",
-        "kombu",
+        "kombu==4.6.11",
         "mutagen",
         "pytz",
         "requests",