diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c324b66..939ac24 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ docopt==0.6.1
 envoy==0.0.2
 github3.py==0.7.0
 pypandoc==0.5.1
-requests==1.2.3
+requests==2.20.0
 wsgiref==0.1.2