diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 28d463b88..2ae646300 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Django>=1.4
 Twisted==11.1.0
 python-memcached==1.47
 txAMQP==0.4
-simplejson==2.1.6
+simplejson==2.6.1
 django-tagging==0.3.1
 gunicorn
 pytz