diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 74438405..5b3c81d3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # jsonschema is used for validating authenticator configurations
 jsonschema
-jupyterhub>=1.2
+jupyterhub>=2.2
 # requests is already required by JupyterHub, but explicitly ask for it since we use it
 requests
 # ruamel.yaml is used to read and write .yaml files.