diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b42f6e657..0d865445f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ lxml==3.8.0
 pyexcel==0.5.3
 pyexcel-io==0.4.4
 pyexcel-xls==0.4.1
-pyexcel-xlsx==0.4.1
+pyexcel-xlsx==0.5.0.1
 pyexcel-ods3==0.4.1
 pytz==2017.2
 six==1.10.0