diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3465a680..2d5da077 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ cache:
 
 install:
 - if ! [ -x "$(command -v aws)" ]; then curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" ; unzip awscliv2.zip ; sudo ./aws/install ; fi
-- pip install -U pip==20.2.1
+- pip install -U pip==21.3
 - .ci/${MODE}_install.py
 
 # Travis has a 4MB log limit (https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/1382), but verbose Mitogen logs run larger than that