diff --git a/constraints.txt b/constraints.txt
index 0b04427f42..2c2a824a1f 100644
--- a/constraints.txt
+++ b/constraints.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ PyYAML==6.0.2
 requests==2.32.3
 sniffio==1.3.1
 soupsieve==2.7
-SQLAlchemy==1.3.24
+SQLAlchemy==2.0.41
 tornado==4.5.3
 typing_extensions==4.14.0
 urllib3==2.5.0
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 31ac9ec7bc..7e129facbd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
     "tornado==4.5.3",         # http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/releases.html
     "psycopg2==2.9.10",       # http://initd.org/psycopg/articles/tag/release/
-    "sqlalchemy>=1.3,<1.4",   # http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/changelog/index.html
+    "sqlalchemy>=1.3,<2.1",   # http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/changelog/index.html
     "netifaces>=0.10,<0.12",  # https://bitbucket.org/al45tair/netifaces/src/
     "pycryptodomex==3.23.0",  # https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/blob/master/Changelog.rst
     "psutil>=5.5,<7.1",       # https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/master/HISTORY.rst