diff --git a/build_tools/appveyor/requirements.txt b/build_tools/appveyor/requirements.txt
index 0b9c63f72789f..79f0c7bd20836 100644
--- a/build_tools/appveyor/requirements.txt
+++ b/build_tools/appveyor/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # of the rackspace folder instead of trying to install from more recent
 # source tarball published on PyPI
 numpy==1.9.3
-scipy==0.16.0
+scipy==1.10.0
 cython
 nose
 nose-timer