diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 4d45a9859f4..2065346d541 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Routes==1.13
 rq==0.6.0
 simplejson==3.10.0
 sqlalchemy-migrate==0.10.0
-SQLAlchemy==1.1.11
+SQLAlchemy==1.2.19
 sqlparse==0.2.2
 tzlocal==1.3
 unicodecsv>=0.9
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 066c867e117..1f4cca2b623 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ rq==0.6.0
 simplejson==3.10.0
 six==1.11.0               # via bleach, html5lib, pastescript, pyutilib.component.core, sqlalchemy-migrate
 sqlalchemy-migrate==0.10.0
-SQLAlchemy==1.1.11        # via sqlalchemy-migrate
+SQLAlchemy==1.2.19        # via sqlalchemy-migrate
 sqlparse==0.2.2
 Tempita==0.5.2            # via pylons, sqlalchemy-migrate, weberror
 tzlocal==1.3