diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fdc0dab..3567507 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ Cython==0.27.1
 
 PyYAML==3.12
 netCDF4==1.2.7
-h5py==2.3.1
+h5py==2.8.0
 # spacepy does not like recent numpy versions (1.7 looks ok)
-numpy==1.7.*
+numpy==1.8.*
 # We only use pycdf from spacepy.
 spacepy==0.1.*
 
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libgit2 0.21.2