diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b99ef53c0e..ed58f27150 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ lxml==4.6.3
 Markdown==3.3.4
 Pillow==8.2.0
 psycopg2-binary==2.8.6
-python-dotenv==0.16.0
+python-dotenv==0.17.0
 requests==2.25.1
 simplejson==3.17.2
 six==1.15.0