diff --git a/tools/requirements.txt b/tools/requirements.txt
index cf8552635d..20f350ca46 100644
--- a/tools/requirements.txt
+++ b/tools/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pygit2==1.0.1
 bidict==0.13.1
-Pillow==7.2.0
+Pillow==8.1.1
 
 # changelogs
 PyYaml==5.3.1