diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4fe7f1444..dc8105f51 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Markdown==2.6.10
 psycopg2==2.7.3.2
 python-levenshtein==0.12.0
 pytz==2017.3
-SQLAlchemy==1.1.15
+SQLAlchemy==1.2.0
 sqlalchemy-citext==1.3-0
 sqlalchemy-migrate==0.11.0
 SQLAlchemy-Searchable==0.10.6