diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 55b1a0523..5e7317e97 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ argparse
 iso8601>=0.1.9
 PrettyTable>=0.7,<0.8
 requests>=1.2.1
-simplejson>=2.0.9
+simplejson>=2.2.0
 six>=1.7.0
 Babel>=1.3