diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index 242bf1ec..384ee2d4
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ MarkupSafe==1.1.0
 matplotlib==3.0.2
 nbformat==4.4.0
 newsapi-python==0.2.3
-numpy==1.16.0
+numpy==1.22.0
 pandas==0.23.4
 parso==0.3.2
 pexpect==4.6.0