diff --git a/requirements/pip.txt b/requirements/pip.txt
index 9c5dba13311..200019866d0 100644
--- a/requirements/pip.txt
+++ b/requirements/pip.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ recommonmark==0.1.1
 
 # Version comparison stuff
 Distutils2==1.0a3
-packaging==15.2
+packaging==16.8
 
 # Commenting stuff
 git+https://github.com/zestedesavoir/django-cors-middleware.git@def9dc2f5e81eed53831bcda79ad1c127ecb3fe2