diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 575e200035ebc..ced4edfb2a0b4 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ geopy==2.2.0
     # via apache-superset
 graphlib-backport==1.0.3
     # via apache-superset
-gunicorn==20.0.4
+gunicorn==20.1.0
     # via apache-superset
 holidays==0.10.3
     # via apache-superset
diff --git a/requirements/testing.txt b/requirements/testing.txt
index ef84e6973c4ea..2d7012a07b6fa 100644
--- a/requirements/testing.txt
+++ b/requirements/testing.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ google-auth-oauthlib==0.4.6
 google-cloud-bigquery[bqstorage,pandas]==2.29.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/testing.in
-    #   apache-superset
     #   pandas-gbq
     #   pybigquery
 google-cloud-bigquery-storage==2.9.1
@@ -105,9 +104,7 @@ openapi-schema-validator==0.1.5
 openapi-spec-validator==0.3.1
     # via -r requirements/testing.in
 pandas-gbq==0.15.0
-    # via
-    #   -r requirements/testing.in
-    #   apache-superset
+    # via -r requirements/testing.in
 parameterized==0.8.1
     # via -r requirements/testing.in
 parso==0.8.2
@@ -138,9 +135,7 @@ pyasn1==0.4.8
 pyasn1-modules==0.2.8
     # via google-auth
 pybigquery==0.10.2
-    # via
-    #   -r requirements/testing.in
-    #   apache-superset
+    # via -r requirements/testing.in
 pydata-google-auth==1.2.0
     # via pandas-gbq
 pyfakefs==4.5.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 44cf9b067eeb9..73a05b5a05527 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def get_git_sha() -> str:
         "flask-wtf",
         "geopy",
         "graphlib-backport",
-        "gunicorn>=20.0.2, <20.1",
+        "gunicorn>=20.1",
         "holidays==0.10.3",  # PINNED! https://github.com/dr-prodigy/python-holidays/issues/406
         "humanize",
         "itsdangerous>=1.0.0, <2.0.0",  # https://github.com/apache/superset/pull/14627