diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 55c89b5fb..1e0c9efe2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ semantic-version>=2.3.1 # BSD
 
 # message extraction
 Babel>=2.3.4 # BSD
-django-babel>=0.4.0 # BSD
+django-babel>=0.5.1 # BSD