diff --git a/automation/requirements.txt b/automation/requirements.txt
index 97ea204..56806a2 100644
--- a/automation/requirements.txt
+++ b/automation/requirements.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ httplib2==0.11.3
 idna==2.7
 ijson==2.3
 ipykernel==5.1.0
-ipython==7.0.1
+ipython==7.16.3
 ipython-genutils==0.2.0
 ipywidgets==7.4.2
 isodate==0.6.0