diff --git a/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt b/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt
index 591d78f..03ca9b9 100644
--- a/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt
+++ b/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ pickleshare==0.7.4
 pluggy==0.6.0
 prompt-toolkit==1.0.15
 py==1.5.3
-Pygments==2.2.0
+Pygments==2.7.4
 pyLDAvis==2.1.1
 pyparsing==2.2.0
 pytest==3.6.0