diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 499fc1c..20ea0f6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ black==19.3b0
 flake8==3.7.7
 gffutils==0.9
 numpy==1.19.1
-requests==2.20.0
+requests==2.31.0
 setuptools==40.4.3
 setuptools_scm==3.1.0
 h5py==2.10.0