diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 5bcd53ab3..8221211ae 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ deps =
     {[testenv:misc]deps}
     astroid==1.4.1
     pylint==1.5.1
-    requests==2.8.1
+    requests==2.9.0
 commands =
     {envpython} scripts/link_pyqt.py --tox {envdir}
     {envpython} -m pylint scripts qutebrowser --output-format=colorized --reports=no