diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 9976fdb1..51cc8fb2 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Django==2.0.1
 
 # Environmental var configuration
 django-configurations==2.0
-dj-database-url==0.4.2
+dj-database-url==3.0.1
 django-cache-url==2.0.0
 
 # For the persistence stores