diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f19f5f24c1..2d402c36a7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # rfmdocstart: required-packages
 archspec==0.1.3
 argcomplete==2.0.0
-coverage==6.2
+coverage==7.0.1
 importlib_metadata==4.0.1; python_version < '3.8'
 jsonschema==3.2.0
 lxml==4.8.0