diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2583818..969b0ac 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ six==1.10.0
 slimit
 supervisor==3.0b2
 uWSGI==2.0.12
-wheel==0.24.0
+wheel==0.38.1
 -e git+https://github.com/mrhanlon/python-irodsclient.git@mirrors#egg=python_irodsclient