diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9330559f9..5f29e8b8b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ lxml==4.4.1
 multidict==4.5.2
 nltk==3.4.5
 psutil==5.6.3
-py-irclib==0.2.1
+py-irclib==0.3.0
 requests==2.22.0
 SQLAlchemy==1.3.10
 tweepy==3.8.0