diff --git a/dev_requirements.txt b/dev_requirements.txt
index f59139a..fd47fc3 100644
--- a/dev_requirements.txt
+++ b/dev_requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 nose==1.3.7
 pylint==1.9.4; python_version < '3.0'
-pylint==2.6.0; python_version > '3.5'
+pylint==4.0.9; python_version > '3.5'
 requests-mock==1.5.2
 collective.checkdocs==0.2
 codecov==2.0.16