diff --git a/server/requirements.txt b/server/requirements.txt
index 4b0bd3b..464f4ea 100644
--- a/server/requirements.txt
+++ b/server/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ numpy==1.16.4
 requests==2.21.0
 bert-tensorflow==1.0.1
 tensorflow_hub==0.4.0
-smart_open==1.8.4
+smart_open==6.2.0
 tensorflow==1.15.2
 setuptools>=41.0.0
 sentencepiece==0.1.85
diff --git a/server/setup.py b/server/setup.py
index ee8c8e2..2de80c4 100644
--- a/server/setup.py
+++ b/server/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="embedding_as_service",
-    version="3.1.1",
+    version="3.1.2",
     author="Aman Srivastava",
     author_email="amans.rlx@gmail.com",
     description="embedding-as-service: one-stop solution to encode sentence to vectors using various embedding methods",