diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2e457754..20b72eea 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # required:
-requests<2.15,>=2.4
+requests >= 2.20.0
 pyxdg
 dnspython
 # optional:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a2088801..e65cd525 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ args = dict(
     },
     # Requirements, usable with setuptools or the new Python packaging module.
     install_requires = [
-        'requests<2.15,>=2.4',
+        'requests >= 2.20.0',
         'dnspython',
         'pyxdg',
     ],