diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b9b0f4036..eb5275f4e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PyYAML==3.11
 cached-property==1.2.0
-docker-py==1.8.0
+docker-py==1.8.1
 dockerpty==0.4.1
 docopt==0.6.1
 enum34==1.0.4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index de009146d..0b37c1dd4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ install_requires = [
     'requests >= 2.6.1, < 2.8',
     'texttable >= 0.8.1, < 0.9',
     'websocket-client >= 0.32.0, < 1.0',
-    'docker-py >= 1.8.0, < 2',
+    'docker-py >= 1.8.1, < 2',
     'dockerpty >= 0.4.1, < 0.5',
     'six >= 1.3.0, < 2',
     'jsonschema >= 2.5.1, < 3',