diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7050444c..1a38713e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ Django==1.8.5
 Pillow==3.0.0
 psycopg2==2.6.1
 python-social-auth==0.2.13
-requests==2.7.0
+requests==2.8.0
 git+https://github.com/umap-project/django-leaflet-storage.git