diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3ee089da9..4b6484258 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ccxt==4.0.14
 cryptography==41.0.1; platform_machine != 'armv7l'
 cryptography==40.0.1; platform_machine == 'armv7l'
 aiohttp==3.8.4
-SQLAlchemy==2.0.17
+SQLAlchemy==2.0.18
 python-telegram-bot==20.4
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1