diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index d99284e06..aa5bc5239 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -78,4 +78,5 @@ Vladimir Kozhukalov         kozhukalov
 Whit Morriss                whitmo                 whit@nocoast.us
 Wolodja Wentland            babilen                w@babilen5.org
 Wout                        wfhg
+Yushi Nakai                 nyushi
 ==========================  =====================  ============================
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 14dc60e12..77ba1e2bd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Version 2015.07.22:
+	* Fix tornado installation in Ubuntu. Thanks Yushi Nakai. #627
+	* Install tornado using pip on Ubuntu for Salt's v2015.8.xx onward stable releases.
+	* Install requests on Ubuntu from Chris Lea's PPA. #630
+
 Version 2015.07.17:
 	* Make sure setuptools is installed before using it. #598.
 	* `systemd` is only fully supported from 15.04 onwards. #602
diff --git a/bootstrap-salt.ps1 b/bootstrap-salt.ps1
index 36c50b0a9..70d6c62d5 100644
--- a/bootstrap-salt.ps1
+++ b/bootstrap-salt.ps1
@@ -100,14 +100,14 @@ If ([IntPtr]::Size -eq 4) {
 }
 
 # Download minion setup file
-Write-Host "Downloading Salt minion installer Salt-Minion-$version-$arch-Setup.exe"
+Write-Host -NoNewline "Downloading Salt minion installer Salt-Minion-$version-$arch-Setup.exe"
 $webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
 $url = "https://docs.saltstack.com/downloads/Salt-Minion-$version-$arch-Setup.exe"
 $file = "C:\tmp\salt.exe"
 $webclient.DownloadFile($url, $file)
 
 # Install minion silently
-Write-Host "Installing Salt minion"
+Write-Host -NoNewline "Installing Salt minion"
 #Wait for process to exit before continuing.
 C:\tmp\salt.exe /S /minion-name=$minion /master=$master | Out-Null
 
@@ -141,14 +141,14 @@ If($runservice) {
   # If the salt-minion service is still not running, something probably
   # went wrong and user intervention is required - report failure.
   If ($service.Status -eq "Stopped") {
-    Write-Host "Failed to start salt minion"
+    Write-Host -NoNewline "Failed to start salt minion"
     exit 1
   }
 }
 Else {
-  Write-Host "Stopping salt minion and setting it to 'Manual'"
+  Write-Host -NoNewline "Stopping salt minion and setting it to 'Manual'"
   Set-Service "salt-minion" -startupType "Manual"
   Stop-Service "salt-minion"
 }
 
-Write-Host "Salt minion successfully installed"
+Write-Host -NoNewline "Salt minion successfully installed"
diff --git a/bootstrap-salt.sh b/bootstrap-salt.sh
index 7d872a28c..1f3415418 100755
--- a/bootstrap-salt.sh
+++ b/bootstrap-salt.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #       CREATED: 10/15/2012 09:49:37 PM WEST
 #======================================================================================================================
 set -o nounset                              # Treat unset variables as an error
-__ScriptVersion="2015.07.17"
+__ScriptVersion="2015.07.22"
 __ScriptName="bootstrap-salt.sh"
 
 #======================================================================================================================
@@ -426,8 +426,8 @@ elif [ "$ITYPE" = "stable" ]; then
         STABLE_REV="latest"
     else
         __check_unparsed_options "$*"
-        if [ "$(echo "$1" | egrep '^(latest|1\.6|1\.7|2014\.1|2014\.7|2015\.5)$')" = "" ]; then
-          echo "Unknown stable version: $1 (valid: 1.6, 1.7, 2014.1, 2014.7, 2015.5, latest)"
+        if [ "$(echo "$1" | egrep '^(latest|1\.6|1\.7|2014\.1|2014\.7|2015\.5|2015\.8)$')" = "" ]; then
+          echo "Unknown stable version: $1 (valid: 1.6, 1.7, 2014.1, 2014.7, 2015.5, 2015.8, latest)"
           exit 1
         else
           STABLE_REV="$1"
@@ -1758,39 +1758,50 @@ install_ubuntu_deps() {
 
     __enable_universe_repository || return 1
 
+    __PIP_PACKAGES=""
+
     # Minimal systems might not have upstart installed, install it
-    __apt_get_install_noinput upstart
+    __PACKAGES="upstart"
 
     # Need python-apt for managing packages via Salt
-    __apt_get_install_noinput python-apt
+    __PACKAGES="${__PACKAGES} python-apt"
+
+    echoinfo "Installing Python Requests/Chardet from Chris Lea's PPA repository"
+    if [ "$DISTRO_MAJOR_VERSION" -gt 11 ] || ([ "$DISTRO_MAJOR_VERSION" -eq 11 ] && [ "$DISTRO_MINOR_VERSION" -gt 04 ]); then
+        # Above Ubuntu 11.04 add a -y flag
+        add-apt-repository -y "ppa:chris-lea/python-requests" || return 1
+        add-apt-repository -y "ppa:chris-lea/python-chardet" || return 1
+    else
+        add-apt-repository "ppa:chris-lea/python-requests" || return 1
+        add-apt-repository "ppa:chris-lea/python-chardet" || return 1
+    fi
+
+    __PACKAGES="${__PACKAGES} python-requests"
 
     if [ "$DISTRO_MAJOR_VERSION" -gt 12 ] || ([ "$DISTRO_MAJOR_VERSION" -eq 12 ] && [ "$DISTRO_MINOR_VERSION" -gt 03 ]); then
         if ([ "$DISTRO_MAJOR_VERSION" -lt 15 ] && [ "$_ENABLE_EXTERNAL_ZMQ_REPOS" -eq $BS_TRUE ]); then
             echoinfo "Installing ZMQ>=4/PyZMQ>=14 from Chris Lea's PPA repository"
             add-apt-repository -y ppa:chris-lea/zeromq || return 1
-            apt-get update
         fi
-        __apt_get_install_noinput python-requests
-        __PIP_PACKAGES=""
-    else
-        check_pip_allowed "You need to allow pip based installations (-P) in order to install the python package 'requests'"
-        __apt_get_install_noinput python-setuptools python-pip
-        # shellcheck disable=SC2089
-        __PIP_PACKAGES="requests>=$_PY_REQUESTS_MIN_VERSION"
     fi
 
     # Additionally install procps and pciutils which allows for Docker boostraps. See 366#issuecomment-39666813
-    __apt_get_install_noinput procps pciutils || return 1
+    __PACKAGES="${__PACKAGES} procps pciutils"
+
 
     if [ "$_INSTALL_CLOUD" -eq $BS_TRUE ]; then
         check_pip_allowed "You need to allow pip based installations (-P) in order to install 'apache-libcloud'"
-        if [ "${__PIP_PACKAGES}" = "" ]; then
-            __apt_get_install_noinput python-pip
+        if [ "$(which pip)" = "" ]; then
+            __PACKAGES="${__PACKAGES} python-setuptools python-pip"
         fi
         # shellcheck disable=SC2089
         __PIP_PACKAGES="${__PIP_PACKAGES} 'apache-libcloud>=$_LIBCLOUD_MIN_VERSION'"
     fi
 
+    apt-get update
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2086,SC2090
+    __apt_get_install_noinput ${__PACKAGES} || return 1
+
     if [ "${__PIP_PACKAGES}" != "" ]; then
         # shellcheck disable=SC2086,SC2090
         pip install -U ${__PIP_PACKAGES}
@@ -1828,6 +1839,16 @@ install_ubuntu_stable_deps() {
         add-apt-repository "ppa:$STABLE_PPA" || return 1
     fi
 
+    if [ ! "$(echo "$STABLE_REV" | egrep '^(2015\.8|latest)$')" = "" ]; then
+        # We need a recent tornado package
+        __REQUIRED_TORNADO="tornado >= 4.0"
+        check_pip_allowed "You need to allow pip based installations (-P) in order to install the python package '${__REQUIRED_TORNADO}'"
+        if [ "$(which pip)" = "" ]; then
+            __apt_get_install_noinput python-setuptools python-pip
+        fi
+        pip install -U "${__REQUIRED_TORNADO}"
+    fi
+
     apt-get update
 }
 
@@ -1874,7 +1895,7 @@ install_ubuntu_git_deps() {
             if [ "$(which pip)" = "" ]; then
                 __apt_get_install_noinput python-setuptools python-pip
             fi
-            pip install -U "'${__REQUIRED_TORNADO}'"
+            pip install -U "${__REQUIRED_TORNADO}"
         fi
     fi
 
@@ -4226,7 +4247,7 @@ install_smartos_git_deps() {
             if [ "$(which pip)" = "" ]; then
                 pkgin -y install py27-pip
             fi
-            pip install -U "'${__REQUIRED_TORNADO}'"
+            pip install -U "${__REQUIRED_TORNADO}"
         fi
     fi