diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9e5803c34..824ea4357 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ pymemcache
 redis
 pillow
 Jinja2>=2.11.2
-PyMySQL==1.1.1
+PyMySQL>=1.0.2
 whitenoise==5.3.0
 pyotp
 pytz