diff --git a/gensim-modified/continuous_integration/appveyor/requirements.txt b/gensim-modified/continuous_integration/appveyor/requirements.txt
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--- a/gensim-modified/continuous_integration/appveyor/requirements.txt
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # fix the versions of numpy to force the use of numpy and scipy to use the whl
 # of the rackspace folder instead of trying to install from more recent
 # source tarball published on PyPI
-numpy==1.9.3
+numpy==1.22.0
 scipy==0.16.0
 cython
 six >= 1.5.0