diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0cf85dd..12f38df 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ rdflib==3.0.0
 docutils==0.7
 pygments==1.3.1
 Cython==0.13
-lxml==2.2.8
+lxml==4.6.2
 Fabric==1.0.0
 django-tastypie
 -e git://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions.git#egg=django-command-extensions