diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ setup(
         'rejester',
         'protobuf',
         'requests',
-        'streamcorpus>=0.3.38',
+        'streamcorpus>=0.3.39',
         'pyyaml',
         'nltk',
         'lxml',
requiring streamcorpus>=<I>, i.e. cbor>=<I> with the fixes for sigsgv and bigname leak