diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 841c46ac5..78c952c26 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ boto3==1.4.4
 py-gfm==0.1.3
 blinker==1.4
 lxml==3.8.0
-pyexcel==0.2.1
+pyexcel==0.5.0
 pyexcel-io==0.1.0
 pyexcel-xls==0.1.0
 pyexcel-xlsx==0.1.0