diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/20221026-pytest-forked.yml b/changelogs/fragments/20221026-pytest-forked.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..50a918cab3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/20221026-pytest-forked.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+trivial:
+- test-requirements - add pytest-forked to requirements for unit tests
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 41566c53e71..28cd3e5c260 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ python-dateutil # Used by ec2_asg_scheduled_action
 coverage==4.5.4
 placebo
 mock
-pytest-xdist
-# We should avoid these two modules with py3
+pytest
+pytest-forked
 pytest-mock
+pytest-xdist
+
 # Needed for ansible.utils.ipaddr in tests
 netaddr
 # Sometimes needed where we don't have features we need in modules