diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4025dd9..a9473ee 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 argparse
 gevent
 gevent_subprocess
-requests==0.14.2
+requests==2.20.0
 pytz
 pyzmq
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 973ab96..135893c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
         'argparse',
         'gevent',
         'gevent_subprocess',
-        'requests==0.14.2',
+        'requests==2.20.0',
         'pytz',
         'pyzmq',
     ]