diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index fa731c2b9..5c7a1728b 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ repos:
           - types-requests==2.31.0.4
           - types-tabulate==0.9.0.3
           - types-python-dateutil==2.8.19.14
-          - SQLAlchemy==2.0.20
+          - SQLAlchemy==2.0.21
         # stages: [push]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fab00f9d5..e5874c026 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pandas-ta==0.3.14b
 ccxt==4.0.88
 cryptography==41.0.3
 aiohttp==3.8.5
-SQLAlchemy==2.0.20
+SQLAlchemy==2.0.21
 python-telegram-bot==20.5
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1