diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3f1105de..a3754df5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Markdown==3.1.1
 mkdocs==0.16.3
 mkdocs-material==0.2.4
-Pygments==2.4.2
+Pygments==2.7.4
 pymdown-extensions==6.0
 
 ## pip list output (in case something breaks) ##