diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7aa2223d78f..10d080753a4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ pandas
 scikit-image
 # pillow >= 4.2 will throw error when trying to write mode RGBA as JPEG,
 # this is a workaround to the issue.
-pillow==4.1.1
+pillow==7.1.0
 wget