diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c1a19f9..2980219 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 cornice==0.16.2
 gunicorn==19.1.1
 pyramid==1.5
-requests==2.2.1
+requests==2.7
 simplejson==3.4
 SQLAlchemy==0.9.4
 unittest2==0.5.1