diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fdc5cc08..b443a749 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 mock==1.0.1
-requests==1.2.3
+requests==2.2.1
 six>=1.3.0
 websocket-client==0.11.0