diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 8fea99cd1..5bbf75965 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ repos:
           - types-requests==2.31.0.2
           - types-tabulate==0.9.0.3
           - types-python-dateutil==2.8.19.14
-          - SQLAlchemy==2.0.19
+          - SQLAlchemy==2.0.20
         # stages: [push]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 497ce4349..bf346382f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ccxt==4.0.71
 cryptography==41.0.3; platform_machine != 'armv7l'
 cryptography==40.0.1; platform_machine == 'armv7l'
 aiohttp==3.8.5
-SQLAlchemy==2.0.19
+SQLAlchemy==2.0.20
 python-telegram-bot==20.4
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1