diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 514b2748f..c30ac7a0c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ h5py==2.10.0
 html5lib==1.1
 idna==2.6
 ipykernel==5.1.2
-ipython==7.7.0
+ipython==7.16.3
 ipython-genutils==0.2.0
 ipywidgets==7.5.1
 jedi==0.15.1