diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1adcf4e..ea0a1b9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ certifi==2017.4.17
 chardet==3.0.4
 Cython
 decorator==4.3.0
-Django==1.11.23
+Django==2.2.27
 django-celery-beat==1.0.1
 django-extensions==2.1.9
 idna==2.5
diff --git a/requirements_incl_notebooks.txt b/requirements_incl_notebooks.txt
index aded3f3..4781a7e 100644
--- a/requirements_incl_notebooks.txt
+++ b/requirements_incl_notebooks.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ chardet==3.0.4
 cycler==0.10.0
 decorator==4.3.0
 defusedxml==0.6.0
-Django==1.11.23
+Django==2.2.27
 django-celery-beat==1.0.1
 django-extensions==2.1.9
 entrypoints==0.3