diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 66aab7056..336e60196 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ pyflakes>=0.9.2
 pyopenssl>=17.5.0		# Used by urllib3.contrib, which is used by PyQuery but not marked as a dependency
 pyquery>=1.3.0
 python-dateutil>=2.4
-python-magic>=0.4.6
+python-magic>=0.4.12
 python-memcached>=1.56		# for django.core.cache.backends.memcached
 python-mimeparse>=1.6		# from TastyPie
 pytz>=2014.7