diff --git a/etc/requirements.txt b/etc/requirements.txt
index 6825fde1f..de536e4b5 100644
--- a/etc/requirements.txt
+++ b/etc/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Logbook==0.12.5
 pytz==2016.4
 
 # FF: Upgraded numpy because of errors with version 1.11
-numpy==1.14.0
+numpy==1.16.0
 
 # for pandas-datareader
 requests-file==1.4.3