diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 25258e4f57..aa0c90e58d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ rauth>=0.6.2
 requests
 redis==2.10.6
 selenium
-babel==2.6.0
+babel==2.9.1
 ipython
 html2text==2016.9.19
 email_reply_parser