diff --git a/packages/service-library/requirements/_test.in b/packages/service-library/requirements/_test.in
index 1e78d11fdf2..adfacb727ce 100644
--- a/packages/service-library/requirements/_test.in
+++ b/packages/service-library/requirements/_test.in
@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ pytest-mock
 pytest-sugar
 
 # tools
-pylint==2.5.0 # 2.5.3 fails to run in parallel
+pylint==2.5.3 # 2.5.3 fails to run in parallel
 coveralls
diff --git a/packages/service-library/requirements/_test.txt b/packages/service-library/requirements/_test.txt
index 2a4e82d35b0..3c9de78d5e6 100644
--- a/packages/service-library/requirements/_test.txt
+++ b/packages/service-library/requirements/_test.txt
@@ -16,9 +16,7 @@ chardet==3.0.4            # via -r requirements/_base.txt, aiohttp, requests
 coverage==5.1             # via -r requirements/_test.in, coveralls, pytest-cov
 coveralls==2.0.0          # via -r requirements/_test.in
 docopt==0.6.2             # via coveralls
-idna-ssl==1.1.0           # via -r requirements/_base.txt
-idna==2.9                 # via -r requirements/_base.txt, idna-ssl, requests, yarl
-importlib-metadata==1.6.0  # via -r requirements/_base.txt
+idna==2.9                 # via -r requirements/_base.txt, requests, yarl
 isodate==0.6.0            # via -r requirements/_base.txt, openapi-core
 isort==4.3.21             # via pylint
 jsonschema==3.2.0         # via -r requirements/_base.txt, openapi-spec-validator
@@ -33,7 +31,7 @@ pluggy==0.13.1            # via pytest
 prometheus-client==0.8.0  # via -r requirements/_base.txt
 psycopg2-binary==2.8.5    # via -r requirements/_base.txt, aiopg, sqlalchemy
 py==1.8.1                 # via pytest
-pylint==2.5.0             # via -r requirements/_test.in
+pylint==2.5.3             # via -r requirements/_test.in
 pyparsing==2.4.7          # via packaging
 pyrsistent==0.16.0        # via -r requirements/_base.txt, jsonschema
 pytest-aiohttp==0.3.0     # via -r requirements/_test.in