diff --git a/r2/setup.py b/r2/setup.py
index 1dba1290..7375d7c2 100644
--- a/r2/setup.py
+++ b/r2/setup.py
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class null(): pass
                       "Babel>=0.9.1",
                       "flup",
                       "simplejson", 
-                      "SQLAlchemy==0.3.10",
+                      "SQLAlchemy==1.3.0",
                       "BeautifulSoup >= 3",  
                       "cssutils",
                       "chardet",