diff --git a/reference-apps/fastapi/requirements.txt b/reference-apps/fastapi/requirements.txt
index bf4db19..9e85169 100644
--- a/reference-apps/fastapi/requirements.txt
+++ b/reference-apps/fastapi/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ pymongo==4.15.5
 # Redis and Caching
 # redis 4.3.0+ required for redis.asyncio.cluster module used by fastapi-cache2
 # redis 4.6.0 is the latest 4.x version compatible with fastapi-cache2 (<5.0.0 requirement)
-redis[hiredis]==4.6.0  # fastapi-cache2 0.2.2 requires redis>=4.2.0rc1,<5.0.0
+redis[hiredis]==7.1.0  # fastapi-cache2 0.2.2 requires redis>=4.2.0rc1,<5.0.0
 fastapi-cache2[redis]==0.2.2  # Response caching
 
 # RabbitMQ