diff --git a/containers/sprm-to-anndata/context/requirements-freeze.txt b/containers/sprm-to-anndata/context/requirements-freeze.txt
index 705ae2a..c9e97f2 100644
--- a/containers/sprm-to-anndata/context/requirements-freeze.txt
+++ b/containers/sprm-to-anndata/context/requirements-freeze.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ idna==2.8
 importlib-metadata==3.4.0
 natsort==7.1.1
 numcodecs==0.7.3
-numpy==1.17.4
+numpy==1.22.0
 packaging==20.8
 pandas==0.25.3
 pycosat==0.6.3
diff --git a/containers/sprm-to-anndata/context/requirements.txt b/containers/sprm-to-anndata/context/requirements.txt
index ac748ab..e3740cd 100644
--- a/containers/sprm-to-anndata/context/requirements.txt
+++ b/containers/sprm-to-anndata/context/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-numpy==1.17.4
+numpy==1.22.0
 pandas==0.25.3
 shapely==1.7.0
 anndata==0.7.1