diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 042348c21..af7e84fa8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ python-telegram-bot==22.5
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1
 humanize==4.13.0
-cachetools==6.2.0
+cachetools==6.2.1
 requests==2.32.5
 urllib3==2.5.0
 certifi==2025.10.5