diff --git a/web_application/heroku_deployment/requirements.txt b/web_application/heroku_deployment/requirements.txt
index 100463a..cecb0fd 100644
--- a/web_application/heroku_deployment/requirements.txt
+++ b/web_application/heroku_deployment/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ click==6.7
 decorator==4.1.2
 Flask==0.12.2
 Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.3.2
-ipython==6.2.1
+ipython==7.16.3
 ipython-genutils==0.2.0
 itsdangerous==0.24
 jedi==0.11.0