diff --git a/reference-apps/fastapi-api-first/requirements.txt b/reference-apps/fastapi-api-first/requirements.txt
index 42ca7ad..8be6dab 100644
--- a/reference-apps/fastapi-api-first/requirements.txt
+++ b/reference-apps/fastapi-api-first/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ 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