diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5a74c9bb..0c61aa76 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 setuptools==21.0
 traitlets>=4.1
 tornado==5.1.1
-# Fix to 2.11.1 due to docker-py needs
-requests==2.11.1
+requests==2.20.0
 docker==2.2
 escapism==0.0.1
 jupyterhub==0.9.6
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7dab481a..c0d7b52a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ def write_version_py():
         "setuptools>=21.0",
         "traitlets>=4.1",
         "tornado>=4.3",
-        "requests>=2.10.0",
+        "requests>=2.20.0",
         "escapism>=0.0.1",
         "jupyter_client>=4.3.0",
         "click>=6.6",