diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1642a65d6b7cf112fa43cd5dce1a449efb46d798..62a618f58d9de65b9bbb71242b8bcf0843d8b90f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 # Read docs for how this works: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/cookbook.html
 Django==1.8
 Pillow
-requests==2.0.1
+requests==2.6.0
 django-tinymce
 python-dateutil==1.5
 django-maintenancemode