diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1cd4dce1f..d04774361 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ aiohttp==3.8.4
 SQLAlchemy==2.0.15
 python-telegram-bot==20.3
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
-httpx>=0.23.3
+httpx>=0.24.1
 arrow==1.2.3
 cachetools==5.3.1
 requests==2.31.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f8b8b515c..106b5b6d3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ setup(
         'ast-comments',
         'aiohttp',
         'cryptography',
-        'httpx',
+        'httpx>=0.24.1',
         'python-dateutil',
         'packaging',
     ],