diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ada6c3c3..14526810 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ oauth2
 pygeoip
 tweepy
 BeautifulSoup==3.2.1
-lxml==3.1beta1
+lxml==4.6.2
 pyenchant==1.6.5
 pydns>=2.3.6
 BeautifulSoup4