diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 86cc1ba01..76259f394 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-requests>=2.20
-flake8>=3.8,<=4.0
+requests ~=2.20
+flake8 ~=4.0