diff --git a/package/CHANGELOG b/package/CHANGELOG
index ceaa559a408..67e46ef767e 100644
--- a/package/CHANGELOG
+++ b/package/CHANGELOG
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ Deprecations
     method to be used, this is done automatically in run()
     
 Testsuite
+  * Raised minimum pytest version to 3.3.0, warns now uses the `match` 
+    argument instead of `match_expr` (Issue #2329)
   * Add tests for the new water bridge analysis (PR #2087)
 
 11/06/18 richardjgowers
diff --git a/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/lib/test_util.py b/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/lib/test_util.py
index 7fc31b0c785..ffbbfebfc5a 100644
--- a/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/lib/test_util.py
+++ b/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/lib/test_util.py
@@ -1861,7 +1861,8 @@ def AlternateUniverse(anything):
                              new_name=new_name,
                              release=release, remove=remove,
                              message=message)
-    with pytest.warns(DeprecationWarning, match_expr="`.+` is deprecated"):
+    # match_expr changed to match (Issue 2329)
+    with pytest.warns(DeprecationWarning, match="`.+` is deprecated"):
         oldfunc(42)
 
     doc = oldfunc.__doc__
diff --git a/testsuite/setup.py b/testsuite/setup.py
index 4a7fabb9258..6dc3b03e6a4 100755
--- a/testsuite/setup.py
+++ b/testsuite/setup.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ def run(self):
           },
           install_requires=[
               'MDAnalysis=={0!s}'.format(RELEASE),  # same as this release!
-              'pytest>=3.1.2',
+              'pytest>=3.3.0', # Raised to 3.3.0 due to Issue 2329
               'hypothesis',
               'psutil>=4.0.2',
               'mock>=2.0.0',  # replace with unittest.mock in python 3 only version