diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4d6572c0e6..6b5945dee2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ requests>=1.1.0
 rsa==3.1.1
 tox==1.4
 Sphinx==1.1.3
-simplejson==2.5.2
+simplejson==2.6.1
 argparse==1.2.1
 unittest2==0.5.1
 httpretty==0.5.5