diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
index fa54ca6a3..3858dca29 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Before we do anything else we'll create a new virtual environment, using [virtua
 
 Now that we're inside a virtualenv environment, we can install our package requirements.
 
-    pip install django
+    pip install django==1.5.1
     pip install djangorestframework
     pip install pygments  # We'll be using this for the code highlighting