diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c2c6f9f..cfa50b9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ html5lib==0.999
 imagesize==0.7.1
 ipykernel==4.3.1
 ipyparallel==5.0.1
-ipython==4.2.0
+ipython==7.16.3
 ipython-genutils==0.1.0
 ipywidgets==5.1.5
 Jinja2==2.8