diff --git a/docs/source/whatsnew/0.8.4.txt b/docs/source/whatsnew/0.8.4.txt
index 16ae4ffc..2fa84f31 100644
--- a/docs/source/whatsnew/0.8.4.txt
+++ b/docs/source/whatsnew/0.8.4.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ Maintenance and Refactorings
 * Asset databases now contain version information to ensure compatibility
   with current Zipline version (:issue:`815`).
 
+* Upgrade requests version to 2.9.1.
+
 Build
 ~~~~~
 
diff --git a/etc/requirements.txt b/etc/requirements.txt
index 5c00af0a..3f9f0456 100644
--- a/etc/requirements.txt
+++ b/etc/requirements.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ python-dateutil==2.4.2
 six==1.9.0
 
 # For fetching remote data
-requests==2.7.0
+requests==2.9.1
 
 Cython==0.22.1