diff --git a/reference-apps/fastapi-api-first/requirements.txt b/reference-apps/fastapi-api-first/requirements.txt
index 6643920..194a0d6 100644
--- a/reference-apps/fastapi-api-first/requirements.txt
+++ b/reference-apps/fastapi-api-first/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ motor==3.7.1
 pymongo==4.15.3
 
 # Redis and Caching
-redis[hiredis]==7.0.1  # Compatible with fastapi-cache2 (requires <5.0.0)
+redis[hiredis]==7.1.0  # Compatible with fastapi-cache2 (requires <5.0.0)
 fastapi-cache2[redis]==0.2.2  # Response caching
 
 # RabbitMQ