diff --git a/requirements/minimal.txt b/requirements/minimal.txt
index 55da3a90d127..eca0f04bae49 100644
--- a/requirements/minimal.txt
+++ b/requirements/minimal.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 requests~=2.26
 mycroft-messagebus-client~=0.9,!=0.9.2,!=0.9.3
 combo-lock~=0.2
-ovos-utils~=0.0, >=0.0.22a3
+ovos-utils~=0.0, >=0.0.22
 ovos-plugin-manager~=0.0, >=0.0.17
 python-dateutil~=2.6
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diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index c4dc5820ca5a..3c027a5bf313 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ python-dateutil~=2.6
 combo-lock~=0.2
 PyYAML~=5.4
 
-ovos-utils~=0.0, >=0.0.22a3
+ovos-utils~=0.0, >=0.0.22
 ovos-plugin-manager~=0.0, >=0.0.17
 ovos-stt-plugin-server~=0.0, >=0.0.2
 ovos-tts-plugin-mimic~=0.2, >=0.2.6