diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 75c1148..405d131 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ djangorestframework==3.5.3
 gnureadline==6.3.3
 gunicorn==19.6.0
 ipdb==0.10.2
-ipython==5.1.0
+ipython==6.2.1
 ipython-genutils==0.1.0
 Markdown==2.6.7
 # Pinned to mock 1.0.1 because of setuptools version conflict