diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9fd04e9..7f5b20f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ python-frontmatter
 # hands the gate policy to. The [flask] extra is just flask>=2.0, already
 # present via Dash.
 dash-improve-my-llms[flask]>=2.7.1
-python-dotenv>=1.0
+python-dotenv>=1.2.3
 pydantic>=2.0
 requests>=2.31