diff --git a/code/joke_bot/requirements.txt b/code/joke_bot/requirements.txt
index 5ebcc9a..390fd43 100644
--- a/code/joke_bot/requirements.txt
+++ b/code/joke_bot/requirements.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ MarkupSafe==1.1.1
 protobuf==3.7.0
 pyasn1==0.4.5
 pyasn1-modules==0.2.4
-PyJWT==1.7.1
+PyJWT==2.4.0
 PySocks==1.6.8
 pytz==2018.9
 requests==2.21.0