diff --git a/maint/requirements.txt b/maint/requirements.txt
index 18d9973199..14cbfa13ed 100644
--- a/maint/requirements.txt
+++ b/maint/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ backports.ssl-match-hostname==3.4.0.2
 Twisted==13.0.0
 futures==2.1.3
 mock==1.0.1
-pycares==0.5.0
+pycares==4.9.0
 pycurl==7.19.0
 
 # Other useful tools