diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2d36949f01..a761e67486 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Flask-RESTful==0.3.10
 geopy==2.4.0
 gunicorn==20.1.0
 hdbscan==0.8.33
-matplotlib==3.7.3
+matplotlib==3.8.0
 networkx==3.1
 nltk==3.8.1
 markupsafe==2.1.3