diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index fff8a7e1c5..0464bcdee4 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ docker~=4.0
 dateparser~=0.7
 python-dateutil~=2.6
 pathlib2~=2.3.2; python_version<"3.4"
-requests==2.22.0
+requests~=2.22
 serverlessrepo==0.1.9
 aws_lambda_builders==0.3.0