diff --git a/etc/requirements.txt b/etc/requirements.txt
index 9ef6d31b..819eee8c 100644
--- a/etc/requirements.txt
+++ b/etc/requirements.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ python-dateutil==2.1
 six==1.3.0
 
 # For fetching remote data
-requests==1.1.0
+requests==1.2.0
 
 # For remaining sane when coping with dates
 delorean==0.2.0