diff --git a/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst b/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst
index 0e888add697a..1ceb5fe834e0 100644
--- a/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst
+++ b/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst
@@ -258,3 +258,4 @@ default to 0.
 The ``version`` may only be specified once, if specified more than
 once the rule will log an error and not be loaded.
 
+The ``requires`` keyword was introduced in Suricata 7.0.3 and 8.0.0.
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 289c0223144a..0c29e60313c8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 # Format:
 #
 #   name {repo} {branch|tag}
-libhtp https://github.com/OISF/libhtp 0.5.45
+libhtp https://github.com/OISF/libhtp 0.5.x
 suricata-update https://github.com/OISF/suricata-update 1.3.0
diff --git a/src/detect-engine-loader.c b/src/detect-engine-loader.c
index 9c3e3e8b533c..1f5363c6f80c 100644
--- a/src/detect-engine-loader.c
+++ b/src/detect-engine-loader.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static int DetectLoadSigFile(
 
     (*goodsigs) = 0;
     (*badsigs) = 0;
+    (*skippedsigs) = 0;
 
     FILE *fp = fopen(sig_file, "r");
     if (fp == NULL) {
diff --git a/src/detect-parse.c b/src/detect-parse.c
index 31df3d0aaed3..e1c073efd6a3 100644
--- a/src/detect-parse.c
+++ b/src/detect-parse.c
@@ -2315,7 +2315,9 @@ Signature *SigInit(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx, const char *sigstr)
     SCEnter();
 
     uint32_t oldsignum = de_ctx->signum;
+    de_ctx->sigerror_ok = false;
     de_ctx->sigerror_silent = false;
+    de_ctx->sigerror_requires = false;
 
     Signature *sig;