diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ac97299..c17629d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # requests, forced version
-Requests==2.2.1
+Requests==2.20.0
 httmock>=1.2.4
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 884660f..dc01bfa 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@
       keywords= ['Get a newsletter', 'ganapi'],
       download_url='https://github.com/getanewsletter/api-python/tarball/v0.1.0',
       classifiers=[],
-      install_requires=['requests==2.2.1']
+      install_requires=['requests==2.20.0']
       )