diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3425b03f288..d222b8c8baf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ setup(
         'contextlib2',
         'cryptography',
         'flask<1.0.0',
-        'flask-appbuilder',
+        'flask-appbuilder==1.10.0',  # known db migration with 1.11+
         'flask-caching',
         'flask-compress',
         'flask-migrate',