diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8fe9ebf..d719a8e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # this version or latest
 ipykernel==4.2.2
-ipython==4.1.1
+ipython==7.16.3
 ipython-genutils==0.1.0
 ipywidgets==4.1.1
 jsonschema==2.5.1