diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 7a14c4d19..3a28e4f35 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ deps =
     {[testenv:misc]deps}
     astroid==1.4.5
     pylint==1.5.5
-    requests==2.9.1
+    requests==2.10.0
     ./scripts/dev/pylint_checkers
 commands =
     {envpython} scripts/link_pyqt.py --tox {envdir}