diff --git a/requirements/rtd.txt b/requirements/rtd.txt
index cf39d6da..3cbdb55d 100644
--- a/requirements/rtd.txt
+++ b/requirements/rtd.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Pillow==8.4.0
 pygeoip==0.3.2
 langdetect==1.0.9
 PyPDF2==1.25.1
-PyMySQL==0.7.9
+PyMySQL==1.1.0
 mysqlclient==1.4.6
 pyspf==2.0.14 # rq.filter: ==2.0.12t
 spoon==1.0.6