diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 826f49c56..df091982f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ccxt==4.2.39
 cryptography==42.0.2
 aiohttp==3.9.3
 SQLAlchemy==2.0.25
-python-telegram-bot==20.7
+python-telegram-bot==20.8
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1
 arrow==1.3.0