diff --git a/reference-apps/fastapi/requirements.txt b/reference-apps/fastapi/requirements.txt
index aef2663..45d5223 100644
--- a/reference-apps/fastapi/requirements.txt
+++ b/reference-apps/fastapi/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ motor==3.7.1
 pymongo==4.15.3
 
 # Redis and Caching
-redis[hiredis]==4.6.0  # fastapi-cache2 0.2.2 requires redis<5.0.0
+redis[hiredis]==7.1.0  # fastapi-cache2 0.2.2 requires redis<5.0.0
 fastapi-cache2[redis]==0.2.2  # Response caching
 
 # RabbitMQ