diff --git a/dev-python/requests/python3_requests-2.7.0.recipe b/dev-python/requests/python3_requests-2.8.1.recipe
similarity index 92%
rename from dev-python/requests/python3_requests-2.7.0.recipe
rename to dev-python/requests/python3_requests-2.8.1.recipe
index 06ff23947..066d62aa0 100644
--- a/dev-python/requests/python3_requests-2.7.0.recipe
+++ b/dev-python/requests/python3_requests-2.8.1.recipe
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ COPYRIGHT="2014 Kenneth Reitz"
 LICENSE="Apache v2"
 REVISION="1"
 SOURCE_URI="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-$portVersion.tar.gz"
-CHECKSUM_SHA256="398a3db6d61899d25fd4a06c6ca12051b0ce171d705decd7ed5511517b4bb93d"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="84fe8d5bf4dcdcc49002446c47a146d17ac10facf00d9086659064ac43b6c25b"
 SOURCE_DIR="requests-$portVersion"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="x86 x86_gcc2 x86_64"