diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 6b37bd36727..8abe1c357c1 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 -f http://simple.crate.io/
 MarkupSafe==0.23
-Pygments==2.0.2
+Pygments==2.15.0
 sphinx
 # temporarily disabled because of an issue on RTD. see also conf.py
 sphinxcontrib-spelling