diff --git a/.jenkins/build.sh b/.jenkins/build.sh
index a53664f5a8f..1e1a06f7ee9 100755
--- a/.jenkins/build.sh
+++ b/.jenkins/build.sh
@@ -32,9 +32,7 @@ python -m spacy download de
 # PyTorch Theme
 rm -rf src
 pip install -e git+git://github.com/pytorch/pytorch_sphinx_theme.git#egg=pytorch_sphinx_theme
-# pillow >= 4.2 will throw error when trying to write mode RGBA as JPEG,
-# this is a workaround to the issue.
-pip install sphinx-gallery==0.3.1 tqdm matplotlib ipython pillow==4.1.1
+pip install sphinx-gallery==0.3.1 tqdm matplotlib ipython pillow==8.1.0
 
 aws configure set default.s3.multipart_threshold 5120MB
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 53e3d8aa87e..83b64c00064 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ ipython
 # to run examples
 pandas
 scikit-image
-# pillow >= 4.2 will throw error when trying to write mode RGBA as JPEG,
-# this is a workaround to the issue.
-pillow==7.1.0
+pillow==8.1.0
 wget
 gym
 gym-super-mario-bros==7.3.0