diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@future==0.14.3
 six==1.9.0
 mako==1.0.1
 markupsafe==0.23
-requests==2.5.1
+requests
 #responses
 whoosh==2.7.0
 elasticsearch==2.3.0