diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ea75313..f1aa894 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ oauthlib==2.1.0
 plac==0.9.6
 preshed==2.0.1
 pygame==1.9.3
-PyJWT==1.7.0
+PyJWT==2.4.0
 pyparsing==2.2.0
 pyreadline==2.1
 pytagcloud==0.3.5