diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ae6b8c1..2ac1245 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ pylint==2.4.4
 pyparsing==2.4.7
 pytest==5.4.1
 ratelimiter==1.2.0.post0
-rethinkdb==2.4.5
+rethinkdb==2.4.8
 rope==0.17.0
 six==1.15.0
 typed-ast==1.4.1