diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 7b5da34d1..9d1075239 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ deps =
     {[testenv]deps}
     {[testenv:misc]deps}
     astroid==1.4.1
-    pylint==1.5.0
+    pylint==1.5.1
     requests==2.8.1
 commands =
     {envpython} scripts/link_pyqt.py --tox {envdir}