diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0e27a45..d57f189 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ python-frontmatter
 # settled the OAI/Anthropic robots taxonomy. The [flask] extra is just
 # flask>=2.0, already present via Dash.
 dash-improve-my-llms[flask]>=2.3.4
-python-dotenv>=1.0
+python-dotenv>=1.2.2
 pydantic>=2.0
 requests>=2.31