diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8919afd1..a90226b2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ iso-639>=0.4.5,<0.5.0
 PyPDF3>=1.0.0,<1.0.4
 pytz>=2016.10
 requests>=2.11.1,<2.25.0
-SQLAlchemy>=1.3.0,<1.5.0    # oauth fails on 1.4+ due to import problems in flask_dance
+SQLAlchemy>=1.3.0,<1.4.0    # oauth fails on 1.4+ due to import problems in flask_dance
 tornado>=4.1,<6.2
 Wand>=0.4.4,<0.7.0
 unidecode>=0.04.19,<1.2.0