diff --git a/examples/NLU/examples/research_projects/distillation/requirements.txt b/examples/NLU/examples/research_projects/distillation/requirements.txt
index c6416fbf..34aa2cd4 100644
--- a/examples/NLU/examples/research_projects/distillation/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/NLU/examples/research_projects/distillation/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 transformers
 
-gitpython==3.0.2
+gitpython==3.1.34
 tensorboard>=1.14.0
 tensorboardX==1.8
 psutil==5.6.6