diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e7735041..70359568 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ iso-639>=0.4.5,<0.5.0
 PyPDF2==1.26.0,<1.27.0
 pytz>=2016.10
 requests>=2.11.1,<2.24.0
-SQLAlchemy>=1.1.0,<1.4.0
+SQLAlchemy>=1.3.0,<1.4.0
 tornado>=4.1,<6.1
 Wand>=0.4.4,<0.6.0
 unidecode>=0.04.19,<1.2.0