diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a25af83..584668f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 nose==1.3.7
 python-Levenshtein==0.12.0
-requests==2.7.0
+requests==2.20.0
 wheel==0.24.0