diff --git a/requirements/common.in b/requirements/common.in
index 7fdbd4130f..c60cd79f20 100644
--- a/requirements/common.in
+++ b/requirements/common.in
@@ -165,13 +165,12 @@ ijson==2.3
 beautifulsoup4==4.6.0
 pyoembed==0.1.2
 
-# The Zulip API bindings, from its own repository.
-# We integrate with these tightly, so often it makes sense to pin a
-# version from Git rather than a release.
-# -e "git+https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api.git@0.4.4#egg=zulip==0.4.4_git&subdirectory=zulip"
-# -e "git+https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api.git@0.4.4#egg=zulip_bots==0.4.4+git&subdirectory=zulip_bots"
-zulip==0.4.4
-zulip_bots==0.4.4
+# The Zulip API bindings, from its own repository.  We integrate with
+# these tightly, including fetching content not included in the normal
+# release tarballs (which is a bug).  So we need to pin it makes sense
+# to pin a version from Git rather than a release.
+-e "git+https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api.git@0.4.4#egg=zulip==0.4.4_git&subdirectory=zulip"
+-e "git+https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api.git@0.4.4#egg=zulip_bots==0.4.4+git&subdirectory=zulip_bots"
 
 # Used for Hesiod lookups, etc.
 py3dns==3.1.0
diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index a53dcafc15..b895fe003e 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 
 git+https://github.com/zulip/talon.git@7d8bdc4dbcfcc5a73298747293b99fe53da55315#egg=talon==1.2.10.zulip1
 git+https://github.com/zulip/ultrajson@70ac02bec#egg=ujson==1.35+git
+git+https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api.git@0.4.4#egg=zulip==0.4.4_git&subdirectory=zulip
+git+https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api.git@0.4.4#egg=zulip_bots==0.4.4+git&subdirectory=zulip_bots
 alabaster==0.7.10
 apns2==0.3.0
 argon2-cffi==18.1.0
@@ -138,7 +140,7 @@ recommonmark==0.4.0
 redis==2.10.6
 regex==2017.11.9
 requests-oauthlib==0.8.0
-requests==2.18.4          # via aws-xray-sdk, docker, moto, premailer, pyoembed, python-digitalocean, python-gcm, python-twitter, requests-oauthlib, social-auth-core, sphinx, stripe, twilio, zulip
+requests==2.18.4          # via aws-xray-sdk, docker, moto, premailer, pyoembed, python-digitalocean, python-gcm, python-twitter, requests-oauthlib, social-auth-core, sphinx, stripe, twilio
 rsa==3.4.2
 s3transfer==0.1.11        # via boto3
 scrapy==1.5.0
@@ -177,5 +179,3 @@ werkzeug==0.12.2          # via moto
 wrapt==1.10.11            # via aws-xray-sdk
 xmltodict==0.11.0         # via moto
 zope.interface==4.4.3     # via twisted
-zulip==0.4.4
-zulip_bots==0.4.4
diff --git a/requirements/prod.txt b/requirements/prod.txt
index 279fa7fba9..e19b70f794 100644
--- a/requirements/prod.txt
+++ b/requirements/prod.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 
 git+https://github.com/zulip/talon.git@7d8bdc4dbcfcc5a73298747293b99fe53da55315#egg=talon==1.2.10.zulip1
 git+https://github.com/zulip/ultrajson@70ac02bec#egg=ujson==1.35+git
+git+https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api.git@0.4.4#egg=zulip==0.4.4_git&subdirectory=zulip
+git+https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api.git@0.4.4#egg=zulip_bots==0.4.4+git&subdirectory=zulip_bots
 apns2==0.3.0
 argon2-cffi==18.1.0
 asn1crypto==0.23.0        # via cryptography
@@ -98,7 +100,7 @@ qrcode==4.0.4             # via django-two-factor-auth
 redis==2.10.6
 regex==2017.11.9
 requests-oauthlib==0.8.0
-requests==2.18.4          # via premailer, pyoembed, python-gcm, python-twitter, requests-oauthlib, social-auth-core, stripe, twilio, zulip
+requests==2.18.4          # via premailer, pyoembed, python-gcm, python-twitter, requests-oauthlib, social-auth-core, stripe, twilio
 rsa==3.4.2
 simplegeneric==0.8.1      # via ipython
 six==1.11.0
@@ -119,5 +121,3 @@ urllib3==1.22             # via requests
 uwsgi==2.0.17
 virtualenv-clone==0.3.0
 wcwidth==0.1.7            # via prompt-toolkit
-zulip==0.4.4
-zulip_bots==0.4.4