diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9392d74..db227e7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #__author__ = "Prithiv Mohan"
 #__date__   = "25/Sep/2017"
 
-FROM ubuntu:16.04
+FROM ubuntu:18.04
 RUN  apt-get update && \
   DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get --yes install git tox make python-all python3 python3-pip debhelper wget && \
   DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get --yes install libmysqlclient-dev libxml2 python3-all libssl-dev && \