diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bf449fe0..b003b74d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Django~=2.2.6
 SQLAlchemy<1.4
 boto~=2.49.0
-dj-database-url~=0.5.0
+dj-database-url~=2.1.0
 django-cors-headers~=3.1.0
 django-compressor~=2.2
 django-pipeline~=1.6.14