diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1eb76e51e0..3b6378c06f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 voluptuous==0.12.2
 PyYAML==6.0
-paho-mqtt==1.6.0
+paho-mqtt==1.6.1
 colorama==0.4.4
 tornado==6.1
 tzlocal==3.0    # from time