diff --git a/medcat-scripts/requirements.txt b/medcat-scripts/requirements.txt
index ad59564c6..12ef0cd25 100644
--- a/medcat-scripts/requirements.txt
+++ b/medcat-scripts/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-medcat[spacy,deid,meta-cat,rel-cat]~=2.8.0
+medcat[spacy,deid,meta-cat,rel-cat]~=2.9.0
 medcat-den
 ipython
 plotly