diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ef78f5a2e1161a37a2f04714423a504d290980f6..c2a968bf0aac4f8b7617385cb6299b27851d1732 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