diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 840e1dc..8bb7799 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ gunicorn==19.1.1
 honcho==0.5.0
 itsdangerous==0.24
 newrelic==2.42.0.35
-requests==2.5.1
+requests==2.20.0
 wsgiref==0.1.2