diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 755db2b41c86b9667f9e3f883f300fea0d7b4ad7..c44bbc0e5b9341c2bbaca2d2c5f71d179d3c09f1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ nltk==3.6.2
 Pillow>=3.4.1
 python-crfsuite==0.9.7
 Pyqtree==1.0.0
-requests==2.25.1
+requests==2.26.0
 sciencebeam-alignment==0.0.5
 sciencebeam-utils==0.1.4
 sklearn-crfsuite==0.3.6