diff --git a/requirements-base.txt b/requirements-base.txt
index 0d5f027..4293d4d 100644
--- a/requirements-base.txt
+++ b/requirements-base.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ gunicorn
 # 2nd degree aichat[nlp] dependencies (nlpia, pugnlp, spacy)
 boto3==1.6.18
 # aichat[django]
-django==2.1.2
+django==2.2.13
 django-extensions>=2.0.7
 future
 fuzzywuzzy==0.16.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bfe220c..53eae2c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ scipy>=1.0.0,<1.1.0
 numpy>=1.14.0,<1.15.0
 
 # aichat[django]
-django==2.1.2
+django==2.2.13
 gunicorn
 
 # aichat[fuzzy]