diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index b5779223b..d1c65e5cf 100755
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 pyrsistent~=0.16.0; python_version<"3"
-boto3~=1.15.16
+boto3~=1.5
 enum34~=1.1; python_version<"3.4"
 jsonschema~=3.2
 six~=1.15
diff --git a/samtranslator/__init__.py b/samtranslator/__init__.py
index da2178f04..4963e4383 100644
--- a/samtranslator/__init__.py
+++ b/samtranslator/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.30.0"
+__version__ = "1.30.1"