diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 70606c7f..270c76d0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ This project adheres to `Semantic Versioning <http://semver.org/>`_.
 * Added ``--default-scheme <URL_SCHEME>``.
 * Added fish shell completion (located in ``extras/httpie-completion.fish``
   in the Github repo).
+* Updated ``requests`` to 2.10.0 so that SOCKS support can be added via
+  ``pip install requests[socks]``.
 * Changed the default JSON ``Accept`` header from ``application/json``
   to ``application/json, */*``.
 
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 6e8cb6d1..347df35b 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -713,6 +713,23 @@ In your ``~/.bash_profile``:
  export NO_PROXY=localhost,example.com
 
 
+SOCKS
+-----
+
+To enable SOCKS proxy support please install ``requests[socks]`` using ``pip``:
+
+
+.. code-block::bash
+
+    $ pip install -U requests[socks]
+
+Usage is the same as for other types of `proxies`_:
+
+.. code-block::bash
+
+    $ http --proxy=http:socks5://user:pass@host:port --proxy=https:socks5://user:pass@host:port example.org
+
+
 =====
 HTTPS
 =====
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d1d6e793..f4b56a33 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ tests_require = [
 
 
 install_requires = [
-    'requests>=2.3.0',
+    'requests>=2.10.0',
     'Pygments>=1.5'
 ]