diff --git a/requirments.txt b/requirments.txt
index acda095b0..2a9f230af 100755
--- a/requirments.txt
+++ b/requirments.txt
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ pyRFC3339==1.1
 python-dateutil==2.7.5
 pytz==2018.4
 pyudev==0.15
-pyxattr==0.5.1
+pyxattr==0.7.1
 PyYAML==3.10
 requests==2.18.4
 requests-file==1.4.3