diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e4a9037a..55a59eb0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description = "Lab inventory management with OCR document intake"
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
 dependencies = [
   "fastapi[standard]>=0.115.0",
-  "sqlmodel>=0.0.22",
+  "sqlmodel>=0.0.38",
   "sqlalchemy[asyncio]>=2.0.0",
   "psycopg[binary]>=3.2.0",
   "alembic>=1.14.0",