diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2e24fe76e..6017fb6d8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ openwisp-notifications @ https://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-notifications/arch
 openwisp-ipam @ https://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-ipam/archive/refs/heads/1.3.tar.gz
 djangorestframework-gis~=1.2.1
 paramiko~=5.0.0
-scp~=0.15.0
+scp~=0.16.0
 django-cache-memoize~=0.2.1
 shortuuid~=1.0.13
 netaddr~=1.3.0