diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 97638fb1..7424076a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ flup==1.0.3
 ipdb==0.13.9
 Pillow==9.0.0
 psycopg2==2.9.9
-python-gettext==3.0
+python-gettext==5.0
 python-magic==0.4.15
 requests==2.27.1
 sqlparse==0.4.2
diff --git a/requirements_local.txt b/requirements_local.txt
index 44371bec..c056be38 100644
--- a/requirements_local.txt
+++ b/requirements_local.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ipykernel==4.5.2
 django==1.11.29
 Pillow==9.0.0
 django-recaptcha==1.4.0
-python-gettext==3.0
+python-gettext==5.0
 beautifulsoup4
 Werkzeug==0.15.3
 django-extensions==1.6.7