diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 33e02ce6..5cf3998d 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 boto>=2.18.0
 conf_d>=0.0.4
 glob2==0.7
-kafka-python==0.9.5
+kafka-python==2.0.1
 paho-mqtt==1.1
 msgpack-pure>=0.1.3
 pika>=0.9.14,<1.0.0