diff --git a/nlp/bert/popart/requirements.txt b/nlp/bert/popart/requirements.txt
index b07c50a55..34244e0c1 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/popart/requirements.txt
+++ b/nlp/bert/popart/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tensorboard==1.15.0
 torch==1.10.0+cpu; python_version=='3.6'
 torch==1.13.0+cpu; python_version>'3.6'
 nltk==3.6.5
-future==0.17.1
+future==0.18.3
 onnx==1.11.0
 tqdm==4.45.0
 protobuf==3.19.4