diff --git a/dependencies.xml b/dependencies.xml
index 423dcd7466..a9308cdd90 100644
--- a/dependencies.xml
+++ b/dependencies.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Note all install methods after "main" take
   <main>
     <h5py>2.10</h5py>
     <numpy>1.18</numpy>
-    <scipy>1.2</scipy>
+    <scipy>1.5</scipy>
     <scikit-learn>0.24</scikit-learn>
     <pandas>1.1</pandas>
     <xarray>0.16</xarray>