diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index dc22cd2c0..c52e0a605 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ pint>=0.8.1
 pymongo>=3.3,<4.0
 twine
 twython
-spacy>=2.1,<3.0
+spacy>=2.3,<3.0
 sphinx>=5.3,<8.1
 sphinx_rtd_theme
 pyyaml>=5.3,<5.4
 git+https://github.com/gunthercox/chatterbot-corpus.git@master
-https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.1.0/en_core_web_sm-2.1.0.tar.gz#egg=en_core_web_sm
-https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/de_core_news_sm-2.1.0/de_core_news_sm-2.1.0.tar.gz#egg=de_core_news_sm
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+https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.3.0/en_core_web_sm-2.1.0.tar.gz#egg=en_core_web_sm
+https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/de_core_news_sm-2.3.0/de_core_news_sm-2.1.0.tar.gz#egg=de_core_news_sm
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