diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bd64785cab..bc54776726 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ cython
 matplotlib
 scikit-image
 tensorflow>=1.3.0
-keras>=2.0.8
+keras>=2.6.0rc3
 opencv-python
 h5py
 imgaug
-IPython[all]
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+IPython[all]