diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e4bf81494..bc76a87a4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ urllib3==2.6.3
 # scipy==1.12.0 # big package, only used when attemping to get the github activity graph -> not implemented ATM
 django-widget-tweaks==1.5.0
 SQLAlchemy==1.3.24 #  <1.4 is important (test_sync_tags_keywords_969, test_issue_832_tag_filter_with_missing_tag)
-Pillow==10.3.0
+Pillow==12.1.1
 bibtexparser==1.4.1
 django-colorfield==0.7.3
 requests==2.32.4