diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index e10513ed..7c4fc0cc 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Release Notes
 PlatformIO 3.0
 --------------
 
+3.3.1 (2017-05-27)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Hotfix for recently updated Python Requests package (2.16.0)
+
 3.3.0 (2017-03-27)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/platformio/__main__.py b/platformio/__main__.py
index 72502afa..8dcd88a2 100644
--- a/platformio/__main__.py
+++ b/platformio/__main__.py
@@ -89,11 +89,10 @@ def main():
         # https://urllib3.readthedocs.org
         # /en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning
         try:
-            requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()
-        except AttributeError:
-            raise exception.PlatformioException(
-                "Invalid installation of Python `requests` package`. See "
-                "< https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/252 >")
+            import urllib3
+            urllib3.disable_warnings()
+        except (AttributeError, ImportError):
+            pass
 
         # handle PLATFORMIO_FORCE_COLOR
         if str(getenv("PLATFORMIO_FORCE_COLOR", "")).lower() == "true":