diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3ad63db86..29462f056 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ python-telegram-bot==22.1
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1
 humanize==4.12.3
-cachetools==6.0.0
+cachetools==6.1.0
 requests==2.32.4
 urllib3==2.5.0
 certifi==2025.6.15