diff --git a/release-scripts/tests/requirements.txt b/release-scripts/tests/requirements.txt
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index bbe619c4289..3228aec3ff6
--- a/release-scripts/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/release-scripts/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ nose==1.3.7
 nose-timer==0.7.1
 nose-parameterized==0.6.0
 pyyaml>=4.2b1
-requests==2.20.1
+requests==2.31.0
 bs4