diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 413abda09ac0e84cb6c7a4431fe29e4d792b65df..da0098a2591ecfab693446e14167e37b620614ed 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ MySQL-python==1.2.5
 SQLAlchemy==0.9.8
 Sphinx==1.2.3
 Werkzeug==0.9.6
-alembic==0.6.7
+alembic==0.8.2
 biopython==1.64
 chardet==2.3.0
 cssselect==0.9.1