diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index dc462606..e8c76a1d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ djangoajax==2.3.6
 lxml==3.6.4
 html5lib==0.9999999
 ipdb==0.8.1
-ipython==4.0.0
+ipython==7.16.3
 ipython-genutils==0.1.0
 logilab-common==1.0.2
 MySQL-python==1.2.5