diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f6cf46a..16f506d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ MarkupSafe==1.1.1
 praw==6.3.1
 requests==2.22.0
 six==1.12.0
-update-checker==0.16
+update-checker==0.18.0
 urllib3==1.25.3
 Werkzeug==0.15.4
 prawcore==1.0.1