diff --git a/src/python/ml_downloader/requirements.txt b/src/python/ml_downloader/requirements.txt
index 0a60a9d..725d84c 100644
--- a/src/python/ml_downloader/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/python/ml_downloader/requirements.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ python-dateutil==2.6.1
 PyYAML==3.12
 requests==2.20.0
 six==1.11.0
-SQLAlchemy==1.1.15
+SQLAlchemy>=1.3.0
 SQLAlchemy-Utils==0.32.21
 urllib3==1.23