diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index 8aa4dcf0..47e83db9
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
             'pylibmc==1.2.3',
             'pyzmq==14.0.1',
             'redis==2.9.0',
-            'requests==2.1.0',
+            'requests==2.20.0',
             'spritemapper==1.0.0',
             'transaction==1.4.1',
             'uWSGI==2.0',