diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index f14977eb0d..2dd38f42bd 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -2691,21 +2691,22 @@
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                 "url": "https://github.com/twigphp/Twig.git",
-                "reference": "874adbd9222f928f6998732b25b01b41dff15b0c"
+                "reference": "70c59531da43afe598c66135e39cac39475a2f51"
             },
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-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/twigphp/Twig/zipball/874adbd9222f928f6998732b25b01b41dff15b0c",
-                "reference": "874adbd9222f928f6998732b25b01b41dff15b0c",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/twigphp/Twig/zipball/70c59531da43afe598c66135e39cac39475a2f51",
+                "reference": "70c59531da43afe598c66135e39cac39475a2f51",
                 "shasum": ""
             },
             "require": {
-                "php": ">=5.4.0",
-                "symfony/polyfill-ctype": "^1.8"
+                "php": "^7.0",
+                "symfony/polyfill-ctype": "^1.8",
+                "symfony/polyfill-mbstring": "^1.3"
             },
             "require-dev": {
                 "psr/container": "^1.0",
@@ -2715,7 +2716,7 @@
             "type": "library",
             "extra": {
                 "branch-alias": {
-                    "dev-master": "1.38-dev"
+                    "dev-master": "2.7-dev"
                 }
             },
             "autoload": {
@@ -2753,7 +2754,7 @@
             "keywords": [
                 "templating"
             ],
-            "time": "2019-03-12T18:45:24+00:00"
+            "time": "2019-03-12T18:48:26+00:00"
         },
         {
             "name": "typo3/phar-stream-wrapper",
diff --git a/core/composer.json b/core/composer.json
index 694ac3413b..559bfd96d6 100644
--- a/core/composer.json
+++ b/core/composer.json
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
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         "typo3/phar-stream-wrapper": "^2.0.1",
-        "twig/twig": "^1.38.2",
+        "twig/twig": "^2.7.2",
         "doctrine/common": "^2.5",
         "doctrine/annotations": "^1.2",
         "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.2.1",