diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c7c908d..f7aec09 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Mako==0.9.1
 MarkupSafe==0.18
 PasteDeploy==1.5.2
 Pygments==1.6
-WebOb==1.3.1
+WebOb==1.8.8
 coverage==3.7.1
 mocker==1.1.1
 nose==1.3.0