diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.in b/requirements/edx/base.in
index 44ba980fe1..b5e7a75d74 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.in
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.in
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ contextlib2                         # We need contextlib2.ExitStack so we can st
 defusedxml
 Django<1.12                         # Web application framework
 django-celery                       # Only used for the CacheBackend for celery results
-django-cookies-samesite             # Middleware which sets SameSite flag for session and csrf cookies in Django<2.2
+django-cookies-samesite             # Middleware which allows SameSite=None flag for session and csrf cookies in Django<3.0.5
 django-config-models>=1.0.0         # Configuration models for Django allowing config management with auditing
 django-cors-headers                 # Used to allow to configure CORS headers for cross-domain requests
 django-countries                    # Country data for Django forms and model fields