diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index faf48f2f..ae40c45e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ httplib2==0.8
 kazoo==1.2.1
 kombu==2.5.8
 mock==1.0.1
-PyYAML==3.10
+PyYAML==5.4
 pychef==0.2.1
 simplejson==3.1.2
 statsd==2.0.0