diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 6a5fe9043c..5bcecea6a4 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ WORKDIR /ie-serving-py
 COPY requirements.txt /ie-serving-py/
 ENV WRAPT_INSTALL_EXTENSIONS=false
 RUN virtualenv -p python3 .venv && \
-    . .venv/bin/activate && pip3 --no-cache-dir install -r requirements.txt
+    . .venv/bin/activate && pip3 install --upgrade pip==20.2.1 && \
+    pip3 --no-cache-dir install -r requirements.txt --use-feature=2020-resolver
 
 COPY start_server.sh setup.py version /ie-serving-py/
 COPY ie_serving /ie-serving-py/ie_serving
diff --git a/Dockerfile_binary_openvino b/Dockerfile_binary_openvino
index a2d7114cbc..e6481477d3 100644
--- a/Dockerfile_binary_openvino
+++ b/Dockerfile_binary_openvino
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ WORKDIR /ie-serving-py
 
 COPY start_server.sh setup.py version requirements.txt /ie-serving-py/
 ENV WRAPT_INSTALL_EXTENSIONS=false
-RUN virtualenv -p python3 .venv && . .venv/bin/activate && pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+RUN virtualenv -p python3 .venv && . .venv/bin/activate && \
+    pip3 install --upgrade pip==20.2.1 && \
+    pip3 install -r requirements.txt --use-feature=2020-resolver
 
 COPY ie_serving /ie-serving-py/ie_serving
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1846ac708d..7a8c529675 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -48,10 +48,10 @@ venv: $(ACTIVATE)
 $(ACTIVATE): requirements.txt requirements-dev.txt
 	@echo "Updating virtualenv dependencies in: $(VIRTUALENV_DIR)..."
 	@test -d $(VIRTUALENV_DIR) || $(VIRTUALENV_EXE) $(VIRTUALENV_DIR)
-	@. $(ACTIVATE); pip$(PY_VERSION) install --upgrade pip
+	@. $(ACTIVATE); pip$(PY_VERSION) install --upgrade pip==20.2.1
 	@. $(ACTIVATE); pip$(PY_VERSION) install -vUqq setuptools
-	@. $(ACTIVATE); pip$(PY_VERSION) install -qq -r requirements.txt
-	@. $(ACTIVATE); pip$(PY_VERSION) install -qq -r requirements-dev.txt
+	@. $(ACTIVATE); pip$(PY_VERSION) install -qq -r requirements.txt --use-feature=2020-resolver
+	@. $(ACTIVATE); pip$(PY_VERSION) install -qq -r requirements-dev.txt --use-feature=2020-resolver
 	@touch $(ACTIVATE)
 
 install: $(ACTIVATE)
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 080c3619db..8be0b12a2f 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ flake8==3.5.0
 pytest==3.7.2
 pytest-cov==2.5.1
 pytest-mock==1.10.0
-requests==2.19.1
-grpcio-testing==1.22.0
+requests==2.21.0
+grpcio-testing==1.24.3
 docker==3.7.0
-protobuf==3.6.1
 opencv-python==4.1.2.30
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 00fee9ee05..eff88679f3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 grpcio==1.24.3
-protobuf==3.10.0
+protobuf==3.12.0
 tensorflow-serving-api==2.0.*
 google-cloud-storage==1.20.0
 boto3==1.10.2