diff --git a/nbconvert/requirements.txt b/nbconvert/requirements.txt
index 532da1b..19a5e6a 100644
--- a/nbconvert/requirements.txt
+++ b/nbconvert/requirements.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ prometheus-client==0.7.1
 prompt-toolkit==2.0.9
 ptyprocess==0.6.0
 Pygments==2.4.2
-pylint==2.3.1
+pylint==2.5.3
 pyparsing==2.4.0
 pyrsistent==0.15.3
 python-dateutil==2.8.0