diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b102081823d..0b51ef4b0d2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ docopt==0.6.2
 docutils==0.8.1
 ecdsa==0.11
 enum34==1.1.6
-ipython==5.1.0
+ipython==7.16.3
 ipython-genutils==0.1.0
 jsonpatch==0.4
 kombu==1.5.1