diff --git a/requires.txt b/requires.txt
index 327bfaa79..7db9fbb5b 100644
--- a/requires.txt
+++ b/requires.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ PyYAML==5.4.1
 setproctitle==1.2.2
 sortedcontainers==2.3.0
 websockets==8.1.0
-click==7.1.2
+click==8.1.0
 dnspython==2.1.0
 watchdog==2.1.3
 pytest
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5052c4757..7b1168fec 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     "setproctitle==1.2.2",  # Gives the chaingreen processes readable names
     "sortedcontainers==2.4.0",  # For maintaining sorted mempools
     "websockets==8.1.0",  # For use in wallet RPC and electron UI
-    "click==7.1.2",  # For the CLI
+    "click==8.1.0",  # For the CLI
     "dnspython==2.1.0",  # Query DNS seeds
     "watchdog==2.1.3",  # Filesystem event watching - watches keyring.yaml
 ]