diff --git a/default_files/python/config/requirements.txt b/default_files/python/config/requirements.txt
index c53efbd22..965da3d13 100644
--- a/default_files/python/config/requirements.txt
+++ b/default_files/python/config/requirements.txt
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ rdflib==3.1.0
 requests-foauth==0.1.1
 requests==1.0.4
 selenium==2.5.0
-simplejson==2.2.1
+simplejson==2.6.1
 suds==0.4
 tweepy==1.7.1
 tweetstream==1.1.1