diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 89029330..1e031678 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ boto>=2.18.0
 conf_d>=0.0.4
 glob2==0.3
 kafka-python==0.9.5
-paho-mqtt==1.1
+paho-mqtt==1.5.0
 msgpack-pure>=0.1.3
 pika>=0.9.14,<1.0.0
 python-daemon>=1.5.2,<=1.6.1