diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 705b6f28..c699e399 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-# Temporary - only to address https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/5067
-urllib3<1.25
-
 # The runtime dependencies of the framework, as if via `pip install kopf`.
 -e .
 
@@ -15,4 +12,4 @@ asynctest
 freezegun
 codecov
 coveralls
-mypy
+mypy==0.740