diff --git a/default_files/python/template/requirements.txt b/default_files/python/template/requirements.txt
index fce25cc21..f1bea7ea3 100644
--- a/default_files/python/template/requirements.txt
+++ b/default_files/python/template/requirements.txt
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@
 # Custom version of scraperwiki library
 -e git+http://github.com/openaustralia/scraperwiki-python.git@morph_defaults#egg=scraperwiki
 
-lxml==3.4.4
+lxml==4.9.1
 cssselect==0.9.1