diff --git a/requirements-app.txt b/requirements-app.txt
index 59c2ebcc2..6739b5b79 100644
--- a/requirements-app.txt
+++ b/requirements-app.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jsonschema==3.2.0
 marshmallow-sqlalchemy==0.24.1
 marshmallow==2.21.0 # pyup: <3 # v3 throws errors
 psycopg2-binary==2.8.6
-PyJWT==1.7.1
+PyJWT==2.0.0
 SQLAlchemy==1.3.20
 strict-rfc3339==0.7
 rfc3987==1.3.8