diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 43afc5a..6cda876 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ gunicorn==19.3.0
 psycopg2-binary
 pytz==2015.4
 requests
-wheel==0.24.0
+wheel==0.38.1
 python-documentcloud==1.0.3
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