diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4f26244f4..f78438e89 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ If you wish to help with development or simply need to run pyfa through a Python
 
 * Python 2.7
 * `wxPython` 2.8/3.0
-* `sqlalchemy` >= 0.6
+* `sqlalchemy` >= 1.0.5
 * `dateutil`
 * `matplotlib` (for some Linux distributions you may need to install separate wxPython bindings such as `python-matplotlib-wx`)
 * `requests`
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f8e777507..2d8894113 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ PyYAML
 python-dateutil
 urllib3
 requests==2.11.1
-sqlalchemy
+sqlalchemy>=1.0.5