diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f01eff6d..f46304f9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ python-dateutil
 PyYAML
 redis
 requests
-requests-retry-session>=0.2.2
+requests-retry-session>=2.0
 urllib3
 
 # The purpose of this file is to contain python runtime requirements