diff --git a/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt b/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt
index 591d78f..550994e 100644
--- a/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt
+++ b/ibm-recommender/requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ gunicorn==19.9.0
 html5lib==1.0.1
 idna==2.6
 ipykernel==4.8.2
-ipython==6.4.0
+ipython==7.16.3
 ipython-genutils==0.2.0
 ipywidgets==7.2.1
 itsdangerous==0.24