diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4b12abe0..9d3b3efa 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
     "semantic_version==2.8.5",  # semantic versioning; better than semver
     "sortedcontainers==2.2.2",  # for SortedSet
     "SQLAlchemy==1.3.18",  # database access
-    "sqlparse==0.4.2",  # [pin exact version from cardinal_pythonlib]
+    "sqlparse==0.4.4",  # [pin exact version from cardinal_pythonlib]
     "unidecode==1.1.1",  # for removing accents
     # Packages for cloud NLP:
     "bcrypt==3.1.7",  # bcrypt encryption