diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6bb9a3413053263a226053c4fd8a045aae0dd41f..991e4942e3aec829c7aa9a0c5e1888ad482c9c3a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ numpy==1.16.2
 Pillow>=3.4.1
 python-crfsuite==0.9.6
 Pyqtree==1.0.0
-requests==2.21.0
+requests==2.22.0
 sciencebeam-alignment==0.0.2
 sciencebeam-utils==0.0.5
 sklearn-crfsuite==0.3.6