diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a8401b8b..ac178051 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ humanfriendly==2.4        # via coloredlogs
 inflection==0.3.1
 ipdb==0.10.0
 ipython-genutils==0.2.0   # via traitlets
-ipython==5.3.0            # via ipdb
+ipython==7.16.3            # via ipdb
 jedi==0.10.2              # via ipython
 json-delta==2.0
 lxml==3.6.0