diff --git a/microservices/course_ingestion/requirements-test.txt b/microservices/course_ingestion/requirements-test.txt
index 40c0e414..5e1fc23e 100644
--- a/microservices/course_ingestion/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/microservices/course_ingestion/requirements-test.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ PyMuPDF==1.18.14
 pytesseract==0.3.8
 umap-learn==0.5.2
 scikit-learn==0.24.2
-sentencepiece==0.1.96
+sentencepiece==0.2.1
 sentence-transformers==2.2.2
 textacy==0.11.0
 pyyaml
diff --git a/microservices/course_ingestion/requirements.txt b/microservices/course_ingestion/requirements.txt
index 6ec2a246..c7f2c1e6 100644
--- a/microservices/course_ingestion/requirements.txt
+++ b/microservices/course_ingestion/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ PyMuPDF==1.18.14
 pytesseract==0.3.8
 umap-learn==0.5.2
 scikit-learn==0.24.2
-sentencepiece==0.1.96
+sentencepiece==0.2.1
 sentence-transformers==2.2.2
 textacy==0.11.0
 pyyaml==6.0