diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 88d51a64c9a2619affc0e9f32a469fe50a1c1e29..8ec103d45666c3d56bf3f86da0c5f4570126f45b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ python-memcached==1.59
 pytz==2023.3
 PyYAML==6.0
 requests==2.28.2
-rq==1.15.1
+rq==1.16.0
 sentry-sdk==1.31.0
 setproctitle==1.3.2
 SolrClient==0.3.1