diff --git a/kgtk/__init__.py b/kgtk/__init__.py
index 0bb84ff29..c24ed73be 100644
--- a/kgtk/__init__.py
+++ b/kgtk/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '1.5.3'
+__version__ = '1.5.4'
diff --git a/kgtk/cli/calc.py b/kgtk/cli/calc.py
index bf2d737b7..36d222fdc 100644
--- a/kgtk/cli/calc.py
+++ b/kgtk/cli/calc.py
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ def parser():
 MIN_OP: str = "min"
 MINUS_OP: str = "minus" # (column1 - column2) or (column - value)
 MOD_OP: str = "mod" # (column mod column) or (column mod value)
+MULTIPLY_OP: str = "multiply" # (column x column) or (column x value)
 NEGATE_OP: str = "negate" # (column, ...)
 NUMBER_OP: str = "number" # Get a number or the numeric part of a quantity.
 PERCENTAGE_OP: str = "percentage"
@@ -1855,6 +1856,27 @@ def mod_op()->bool:
                 return True
             opfunc = mod_op
 
+        elif operation == MULTIPLY_OP:
+            if not ((len(sources) == 2 and len(values) == 0) or (len(sources) == 1 and len(values) == 1)):
+                raise KGTKException("Multiply needs two sources or one source and one value, got %d sources and %d values" % (len(sources), len(values)))
+            if len(into_column_idxs) != 1:
+                raise KGTKException("Multiply needs 1 destination columns, got %d" % len(into_column_idxs))
+
+            def multiply_2_op()->bool:
+                # TODO: support quantities.
+                output_row[into_column_idx] = str(float(row[sources[0]]) * float(row[sources[1]]))
+                return True
+
+            def multiply_1op()->bool:
+                # TODO: support quantities.
+                output_row[into_column_idx] = str(float(row[sources[0]]) * float(values[0]))
+                return True
+
+            if len(sources) == 2:
+                opfunc = multiply_2_op
+            else:
+                opfunc = multiply_1_op
+
         elif operation == NAND_OP:
             if len(sources) == 0:
                 raise KGTKException("Nand needs at least one source, got %d" % len(sources))
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e0aae13e0..fd5f8520e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ rdflib==6.1.1
 rdflib-jsonld==0.6.2
 pyshacl>=0.19.0
 rfc3986
-thinc==7.4.0
+thinc
 plac==1.1.3
 parsley>=1.3
 peewee>=3.14.10