diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6a581002b5b..74f976b5a9a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Babel==2.2.0
 Jinja2==2.8
 MarkupSafe==0.23
-Pygments==2.1.3
+Pygments==2.9.0
 Sphinx==1.3.6
 alabaster==0.7.7
 check-manifest==0.31