diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 3cd55cb..be225d8 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # process, which may cause wedges in the gate later.
 
 # Hacking already pins down pep8, pyflakes and flake8
-hacking!=0.13.0,<0.14,>=0.12.0 # Apache-2.0
+hacking>=2.0,<2.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 # remove this pyflakes from here once you bump the
 # hacking to 3.2.0 or above. hacking 3.2.0 takes
 # care of pyflakes version compatibilty.
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index cf89710..5aa6b38 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -32,4 +32,7 @@
 [flake8]
 show-source = True
 builtins = _
+# W504 line break after binary operator
+# E741 ambiguous variable name 'l'
+ignore = W504,E741
 exclude=.venv,.git,.tox,*lib/python*,private,.eggs