diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index fc933c09a..e6a678b93 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ backports.tempfile; python_version < "3"
 bandit==1.6.2
 bump2version
 codacy-coverage
-coverage==4.0; python_version < "3"
+coverage==5.5; python_version < "3"
 coverage; python_version >= "3"
 doc8
 docformatter