diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1cf54ba3..b666a28a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ lxml==4.6.3
 Markdown==3.3.4
 Pillow==8.1.2
 psycopg2-binary==2.8.6
-python-dotenv==0.15.0
+python-dotenv==0.16.0
 requests==2.25.1
 simplejson==3.17.2
 six==1.15.0