diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1fec4003..67166d2b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ pbr>=0.6,!=0.7,<1.0
 argparse
 PrettyTable>=0.7,<0.8
 requests>=1.2.1
-simplejson>=2.0.9
+simplejson>=2.2.0
 Babel>=1.3
 six>=1.7.0