diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e5a7085ac2ef1eefca04e90c6c115a2756d90667..b707a82f4fad668be15fee1aaecae3f36e3faa94 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ lscsoft-glue==1.60.0
 lxml==4.2.0
 matplotlib==2.0.0
 mock==2.0.0
-mysql-python==1.2.5
+mysqlclient==1.4.2
 packaging==17.1
 phonenumbers==8.8.11
 python-ldap==3.1.0