diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 69130c41e..a8482a197 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ cryptography==42.0.8; platform_machine == 'armv7l'
 cryptography==43.0.0; platform_machine != 'armv7l'
 aiohttp==3.10.5
 SQLAlchemy==2.0.32
-python-telegram-bot==21.4
+python-telegram-bot==21.5
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1
 humanize==4.10.0