diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 118ad95e2..70f268478 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ccxt==3.1.23
 cryptography==41.0.1; platform_machine != 'armv7l'
 cryptography==40.0.1; platform_machine == 'armv7l'
 aiohttp==3.8.4
-SQLAlchemy==2.0.15
+SQLAlchemy==2.0.16
 python-telegram-bot==20.3
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1