diff --git a/maint/requirements.txt b/maint/requirements.txt
index 18d9973199..010f758a66 100644
--- a/maint/requirements.txt
+++ b/maint/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 backports.ssl-match-hostname==3.4.0.2
 
 # Tornado's optional dependencies
-Twisted==13.0.0
+Twisted==26.4.0rc2
 futures==2.1.3
 mock==1.0.1
 pycares==0.5.0