diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 576106769..c8391ed1d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ python-telegram-bot==22.7
 # can't be hard-pinned due to telegram-bot pinning httpx with ~
 httpx>=0.24.1
 humanize==4.15.0
-cachetools==7.0.6
+cachetools==7.1.1
 requests==2.33.1
 urllib3==2.6.3
 certifi==2026.4.22