diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 760fc92f..5f04a9f2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 install_requires = [
     'automat==20.2.0',
-    'amqp~=2.0,>2.2.0,!=2.3.0',
+    'amqp',
     'autosemver~=0.2',
     "backports.tempfile==1.0",
     'boto3~=1.14',
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
     'inspire-utils~=3.0,>=3.0.0',
     # newer scrapy is incompatible with old scrapyd
     'Scrapy~=1.6,<1.7.0',
+    'parsel<=1.8.0',
     'scrapy-crawl-once~=0.1,>=0.1.1',
     'scrapy-sentry~=0.0,>=0.8.0',
     # TODO: unpin once they support wheel building again, needed for Python 3
@@ -45,13 +46,14 @@
     'harvestingkit>=0.6.12',
     'Sickle~=0.6,>=0.6.2',
     # newer versions seem incompatible with required scrapyd version
-    'Twisted~=18.0,>=18.9.0',
+    'Twisted~=18.0,>=18.9.0; python_version == "2.7"',
+    'Twisted>=21.2.0; python_version >= "3"',
     #latex parsing
     'pylatexenc~=2.9',
-    'queuelib==1.5.0',
-    'sentry-sdk==1.3.0',
-    'structlog==20.1.0',
-    'python-logstash==0.4.8',
+    'queuelib>=1.5.0',
+    'sentry-sdk>=0.10.0',
+    'structlog>=19.0.0',
+    'python-logstash>=0.4.8',
 ]
 
 tests_require = [
@@ -61,7 +63,7 @@
     'freezegun>=0.3.9',
     'isort==4.2.2',
     'mock~=2.0,>=2.0.0',
-    'pytest>=2.8.0',
+    'pytest>=2.8.0, <8.0.0',
     'pytest-cov>=2.1.0',
     'pytest-pep8>=1.0.6',
     'requests-mock>=1.3.0',
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_desy.py b/tests/unit/test_desy.py
index d9a6853c..0cdb66d7 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_desy.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_desy.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 import os
-
+import sys
 import mock
 import pytest
 from deepdiff import DeepDiff
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ def override_generated_fields(record):
     ]
 )
 def test_pipeline(generated_records, expected_records):
+    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        unicode = str
     clean_generated_records = [
         override_generated_fields(generated_record)
         for generated_record in generated_records
@@ -126,6 +128,10 @@ def test_invalid_jsonll():
         response.meta = {"s3_subdirectory": 'invalid_record'}
 
         result = list(spider.parse(response))
-        assert result[0].exception.startswith('ValueError')
+        exception = result[0].exception
+        if exception.startswith('ValueError') or exception.startswith('JSONDecodeError'):
+            assert True
+        else:
+            assert False
         assert result[0].traceback is not None
         assert result[0].source_data == "This is not actually JSONL"
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_settings.py b/tests/unit/test_settings.py
index 44967ba7..4ec42585 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_settings.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_settings.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # more details.
 
 import logging
-
+import sys
 from scrapy.utils.project import get_project_settings
 from scrapy.utils.log import (configure_logging, logger)
 
@@ -21,4 +21,7 @@ def test_log_settings():
 
     configure_logging(settings=settings)
     assert any(isinstance(handler, logging.StreamHandler) for handler in logger.root.handlers)
-    assert not any(isinstance(handler, logging.FileHandler) for handler in logger.root.handlers)
+    if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        assert any(isinstance(handler, logging.FileHandler) and handler.level == logging.NOTSET for handler in logger.root.handlers)
+    else:
+        assert not any(isinstance(handler, logging.FileHandler) for handler in logger.root.handlers)
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