diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/poetry.lock b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/poetry.lock
index 7dbc075d4..a33e2243a 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/poetry.lock
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/poetry.lock
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ dev = ["coverage", "black", "hypothesis", "hypothesmith"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "flake8-docstrings"
-version = "1.5.0"
+version = "1.6.0"
 description = "Extension for flake8 which uses pydocstyle to check docstrings"
 category = "dev"
 optional = false
@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ testing = ["pytest (>=4.6)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=1.2.3)", "pytest-flake8", "pyt
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.6.1"
-content-hash = "b7aeb9bc0be4f35ec483e55aa34efb9e3ca7d8fda20e6e4c75584310dab78d90"
+content-hash = "68044f291b6451416f28a0f9ef6ef85c5177db7d6f2f20f6a8eb4b6640981a25"
 
 [metadata.files]
 alabaster = [
@@ -1151,8 +1151,8 @@ flake8-bugbear = [
     {file = "flake8_bugbear-21.4.3-py36.py37.py38-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4f305dca96be62bf732a218fe6f1825472a621d3452c5b994d8f89dae21dbafa"},
 ]
 flake8-docstrings = [
-    {file = "flake8-docstrings-1.5.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:3d5a31c7ec6b7367ea6506a87ec293b94a0a46c0bce2bb4975b7f1d09b6f3717"},
-    {file = "flake8_docstrings-1.5.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a256ba91bc52307bef1de59e2a009c3cf61c3d0952dbe035d6ff7208940c2edc"},
+    {file = "flake8-docstrings-1.6.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9fe7c6a306064af8e62a055c2f61e9eb1da55f84bb39caef2b84ce53708ac34b"},
+    {file = "flake8_docstrings-1.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:99cac583d6c7e32dd28bbfbef120a7c0d1b6dde4adb5a9fd441c4227a6534bde"},
 ]
 flake8-polyfill = [
     {file = "flake8-polyfill-1.0.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e44b087597f6da52ec6393a709e7108b2905317d0c0b744cdca6208e670d8eda"},
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pyproject.toml b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pyproject.toml
index 83afe879a..d066019f0 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pyproject.toml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ flake8 = "^3.9.0"
 black = "^20.8b1"
 flake8-bandit = "^2.1.2"
 flake8-bugbear = "^21.4.3"
-flake8-docstrings = "^1.5.0"
+flake8-docstrings = "^1.6.0"
 flake8-rst-docstrings = "^0.0.14"
 pep8-naming = "^0.11.1"
 darglint = "^1.7.0"