diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5d6de42..cebbafa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Jinja2==2.7.3
 MarkupSafe==0.23
 paramiko==1.14.1
 Pygments==1.6
-PyYAML==3.11
+PyYAML==5.4
 Sphinx==1.2.3
 SQLAlchemy==0.9.7
 py==1.4.24
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index eff1ecb..99a3bfa 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
         'MarkupSafe==0.23',
         'paramiko==1.14.1',
         'Pygments==1.6',
-        'PyYAML==3.11',
+        'PyYAML==5.4',
         'Sphinx==1.2.3',
         'SQLAlchemy==0.9.7',
         'py==1.4.24',