diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 54ea704..32f02aa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 paho-mqtt==1.5.1
 pycodestyle==2.6.0
-coverage==4.5.4
+coverage==5.4
 python-coveralls==2.9.3
 python-semantic-release==7.2.2