diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8e670411..af0c2b08 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FontTools[ufo,lxml,unicode]==4.43.1
+FontTools[ufo,unicode,lxml]==4.44.3
 fontMath==0.9.3
 defcon[pens]==0.10.3
 booleanOperations==0.9.0