diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index 0cb373219..065e57e57 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ The following software and libraries are required to run qutebrowser:
 * http://qt-project.org/[Qt] 5.2.0 or newer (5.4.2 recommended)
 * QtWebKit
 * http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro[PyQt] 5.2.0 or newer
-(5.4.1 recommended) for Python 3
+(5.4.2 recommended) for Python 3
 * https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/[pkg_resources/setuptools]
 * http://fdik.org/pyPEG/[pyPEG2]
 * http://jinja.pocoo.org/[jinja2]
diff --git a/scripts/ci_install.py b/scripts/ci_install.py
index 1af604892..6d0ea9016 100644
--- a/scripts/ci_install.py
+++ b/scripts/ci_install.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import sys
 import subprocess
 import urllib
 
-PYQT_VERSION = '5.4.1'
+PYQT_VERSION = '5.4.2'
 
 
 def apt_get(args):