diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 933e13ff..c591be0e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def read(file_name):
         "lxml>3.0",
         "oauthlib",
         "pygments",
-        "requests>=2.7",
+        "requests>=2.310",
         "requests_ntlm>=0.2.0",
         "requests_oauthlib",
         "tzdata",