diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3a38209..edaa5ee 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 requests>=2.20.0
 certifi==2017.7.27.1
 chardet==3.0.4
-requests==2.18.4
+requests==2.20.0
 urllib3==1.24.2
 git+https://github.com/operable/pycog3.git@0.1.28