diff --git a/requirements/edx/post.txt b/requirements/edx/post.txt
index 85516d4466..3731c81a7e 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/post.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/post.txt
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@
 # resolution of this dependency during compilation. So we need to install
 # python-saml only after lxml has been successfully installed. 
 
-python-saml==2.2.1
+python-saml==2.4.0