diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index e9da437f..2874805f 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Flask-Principal==0.4.0
 Flask-Mail==0.9.1
 SQLAlchemy-Utils==0.31.3
 BeautifulSoup4
-requests==2.8.0
+requests==2.8.1
 psycopg2==2.6.1
 arrow==0.7.0
 boto==2.38.0  # we might make this optional