diff --git a/docs/rtdio_requirements.txt b/docs/rtdio_requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a7d892b8c..0000000000
--- a/docs/rtdio_requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-asn1crypto==1.5.1
-cairocffi==1.5.1
-CairoSVG==2.7.0
-certifi==2023.5.7
-cffi==1.15.1
-charset-normalizer==3.1.0
-click==8.1.3
-coincurve==17.0.0
-colorama==0.4.6
-colorlog==6.7.0
-cssselect2==0.7.0
-defusedxml==0.7.1
-ethereum @ git+https://github.com/ethereum/execution-specs.git@aadc2a4727fbc1191fdaf3809df1a1867419f754
-exceptiongroup==1.1.1
-ghp-import==2.1.0
-griffe==0.29.0
-idna==3.4
-iniconfig==2.0.0
-Jinja2==3.1.2
-Markdown==3.3.7
-MarkupSafe==2.1.2
-mergedeep==1.3.4
-mkdocs==1.4.3
-mkdocs-autorefs==0.4.1
-mkdocs-gen-files==0.5.0
-mkdocs-git-authors-plugin==0.7.1
-mkdocs-glightbox==0.3.4
-mkdocs-literate-nav==0.6.0
-mkdocs-material==9.1.15
-mkdocs-material-extensions==1.1.1
-mkdocstrings==0.22.0
-mkdocstrings-python==1.1.0
-packaging==23.1
-Pillow==9.5.0
-pluggy==1.0.0
-pycparser==2.21
-pycryptodome==3.18.0
-Pygments==2.15.1
-pymdown-extensions==10.0.1
-pytest==7.3.1
-python-dateutil==2.8.2
-PyYAML==6.0
-pyyaml_env_tag==0.1
-regex==2023.5.5
-requests==2.28.2
-six==1.16.0
--e git+ssh://git@github.com/danceratopz/execution-spec-tests.git@cb401e3f633e396fa68330752f5996e2907afc40#egg=test_filler
-tinycss2==1.2.1
-tomli==2.0.1
-types-setuptools==57.4.4
-typing_extensions==4.6.2
-urllib3==1.26.16
-watchdog==3.0.0
-webencodings==0.5.1
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 6c2b43450d..b0c33c9e25 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ install_requires =
     ethereum@git+https://github.com/ethereum/execution-specs.git
     setuptools==58.3.0
     types-setuptools==57.4.4
-    requests==2.28.2
+    requests>=2.31.0
     colorlog>=6.7.0
     pytest==7.3.2