diff --git a/python/requirements.txt b/python/requirements.txt
index f8298a63612cb217ce0e711e78fffdf86b73313d..84cf440397b994ba12fa70d9e316e788f34e2415 100644
--- a/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/python/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ requests==2.9.2
 numpy>=1.12,<=1.14 #TODO:change to ">=1.12" when numpy fix bug in 1.15 and higher version
 protobuf==3.1
 recordio>=0.1.0
-matplotlib
+matplotlib==2.2.3 # TODO: let python3 paddlepaddle package use latest matplotlib
 rarfile
 scipy>=0.19.0
 Pillow