diff --git a/mutalyzer/redisclient.py b/mutalyzer/redisclient.py
index 58acd7cacdda8818dcf902150f361ce8d7342313..82dae67efcbee8e4e8a0810557c24bfaed31c97b 100644
--- a/mutalyzer/redisclient.py
+++ b/mutalyzer/redisclient.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class LazyClient(util.LazyObject):
         else:
             self._wrapped = redis.StrictRedis.from_url(settings.REDIS_URI,
                                                        decode_responses=True,
-                                                       charset='utf-8')
+                                                       encoding='utf-8')
 
 
 #: Global :class:`LazyClient` instance. Use this for all communication with
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 63d953eace27346d46a9a1a03088b42509c7b87e..99065b96b5b3b80ecdffc6fec3d1c9ed1682dd9c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
+-e git+https://github.com/LUMC/magic-python.git#egg=Magic_file_extensions
+Flask==0.10.1
+Jinja2==2.7.3
 MySQL-python==1.2.5
-biopython==1.63
-lxml==3.3.3
-pytest==2.6.1
-pyparsing==2.0.1
-pytz==2013.9
-requests==2.2.1
-simplejson==3.3.3
+SQLAlchemy==0.9.8
+Sphinx==1.2.3
+Werkzeug==0.9.6
+alembic==0.6.7
+biopython==1.64
+cchardet==0.3.5
+cssselect==0.9.1
+lxml==3.4.0
+mock==1.0.1
+mockredispy==2.9.0.9
+pyparsing==2.0.3
+pytest==2.6.3
+pytz==2014.7
+redis==2.10.3
+requests==2.4.3
+simplejson==3.6.4
+sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.6
 spyne==2.11.0
 suds==0.4
 wsgiref==0.1.2
-xlrd==0.9.2
-cssselect==0.9.1
-Jinja2==2.7.2
--e git+https://github.com/LUMC/magic-python.git#egg=Magic_file_extensions
-Flask==0.10.1
-SQLAlchemy==0.9.3
-redis==2.9.1
-mockredispy==2.9.0.1
-mock==1.0.1
-alembic==0.6.3
-Sphinx==1.2.1
-sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.5
-cchardet==0.3.5
-Werkzeug==0.9.6
+xlrd==0.9.3