diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 85c0a6a..6ece8e7 100755
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.8.16
+2.8.17
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f51b693..b53f166 100755
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 git+https://github.com/zdw/robotframework-importresource@b81b87aabaee0594e966687b41e3674b866f28ee
 cord-robot==2.1.4
 virtualenv
-matplotlib>=3.0.3
+matplotlib==3.0.3
 requests==2.24.0
 grpc-robot>=2.7.0
 kafka-robot>=2.3.2