diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 58dd09a5..f2578c07 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ redis==3.3.8  # https://github.com/antirez/redis
 sentry-asgi==0.2.0
 sentry-sdk==0.12.2  # https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-python
 twisted==20.3.0
-txaio==18.8.1
+txaio==20.4.1
 typing-extensions==3.7.4
 websocket-client==0.56.0 # need this for now to profile and find speedups
 websockets==8.0.2