diff --git a/requirements/development.txt b/requirements/development.txt
index 6179ee7..300c003 100644
--- a/requirements/development.txt
+++ b/requirements/development.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ PyYAML==3.13
 coverage==4.5.1
 pep8==1.7.1
 pylint==2.1.1
-flake8==3.5.0
+flake8==7.1.1
 pyflakes==2.0.0
 mccabe==0.6.1
 pytest==3.4.0