diff --git a/jupyterhub/openshift/scicat-notebook/requirements.txt b/jupyterhub/openshift/scicat-notebook/requirements.txt
index fcb9127..ea169fa 100644
--- a/jupyterhub/openshift/scicat-notebook/requirements.txt
+++ b/jupyterhub/openshift/scicat-notebook/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ distributed<2.7.0; python_version < "3.6"
 distributed==2.8.1; python_version >= "3.6"
 tornado<6.0.0; python_version < "3.6"
 tornado==6.0.3; python_version >= "3.6"
-numpy==1.17.4
+numpy==1.21.0
 pandas==0.25.3
 vega==2.6.0
 altair==3.3.0