diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 77d830a..9a0a103 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ itsdangerous==2.1.2
 jsonschema[format]>=2.5.1,<4.0.0 # until https://github.com/Yelp/bravado-core/pull/385
 lima==0.5
 --use-feature=no-binary-enable-wheel-cache lxml==4.9.0
-mysqlclient==2.0.1
+mysqlclient==2.2.1
 passlib==1.7.4
 #pyOpenSSL==22.1.0
 pyasn1==0.4.8