diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e53037c8..87a5d693 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Django==1.7.7
 Markdown==2.2.1
 MySQL-python==1.2.5
 Pillow==3.3.1
-PyYAML==3.10
+PyYAML==5.4
 Pygments==1.5
 boto3==1.4.0
 django-allauth==0.19.1