diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1a7c72a..41fd5d6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ requests==2.11.1
 six==1.10.0
 slackclient==1.0.1
 Unidecode==0.4.19
-websocket-client==0.37.0
+websocket-client==1.8.0
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 23f65b9..d31df4e 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ tox==2.3.1
 Unidecode==0.4.19
 virtualenv==15.0.2
 watchdog==0.8.3
-websocket-client==0.37.0
+websocket-client==1.8.0