diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1a3d727f536694f8ec391ff85f74e8c6abadadd1..e6bdcac0e277ef88c35b2017cea86ea853253213 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ django-csp==3.7
 django-compressor==4.3.1
 django-libsass==0.9
 django-betterforms==2.0.0
-mysqlclient==2.1.1  # for production deployment
+mysqlclient==2.2.0  # for production deployment
 tzdata==2023.3