diff --git a/etc/requirements.txt b/etc/requirements.txt
index f45ca908..19f7e4ef 100644
--- a/etc/requirements.txt
+++ b/etc/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ python-dateutil==2.4.2
 six==1.9.0
 
 # For fetching remote data
-requests==2.6.0
+requests==2.6.1
 
 Cython==0.22