diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 705441a88..cf88d16de 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SQLAlchemy==2.0.38
 python-telegram-bot==21.10
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1
-humanize==4.11.0
+humanize==4.12.0
 cachetools==5.5.1
 requests==2.32.3
 urllib3==2.3.0