diff --git a/requirements_tests.txt b/requirements_tests.txt
index ae8b1810e..27bb2ed8b 100644
--- a/requirements_tests.txt
+++ b/requirements_tests.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 black==20.8b1
 codecov==2.1.11
 coverage==5.5
-flake8-docstrings==1.5.0
+flake8-docstrings==1.6.0
 flake8==3.9.0
 pre-commit==2.11.1
 pydocstyle==5.1.1