diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index edf13c868..c99e11623 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # we use the official Brotli module on CPython and the CFFI-based
 # extension 'brotlipy' on PyPy
-brotli==0.6.0; platform_python_implementation != "PyPy"
+brotli==1.0.1; platform_python_implementation != "PyPy"
 brotlipy==0.7.0; platform_python_implementation == "PyPy"
 unicodedata2==10.0.0; python_version < '3.7' and platform_python_implementation != "PyPy"
 munkres==1.0.10