diff --git a/pythonforandroid/recipes/requests/__init__.py b/pythonforandroid/recipes/requests/__init__.py
index 753f918a85..c2a349af16 100644
--- a/pythonforandroid/recipes/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/pythonforandroid/recipes/requests/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from pythonforandroid.toolchain import PythonRecipe
 
 class RequestsRecipe(PythonRecipe):
-    version = '2.9.1'
+    version = '2.13.0'
     url = 'https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/archive/v{version}.tar.gz'
     depends = ['hostpython2', 'setuptools']
     site_packages_name = 'requests'