diff --git a/installation_and_upgrade/requirements.txt b/installation_and_upgrade/requirements.txt
index ef4f5a5..9f1c0a0 100644
--- a/installation_and_upgrade/requirements.txt
+++ b/installation_and_upgrade/requirements.txt
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ epicscorelibs
 certifi  # Needed in order for requests to find https certificates
 requests
 python-msilib  # Short term hack, msilib is deprecated and removed from python (see https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#msilib)
-mysql-connector-python==8.4.0
+mysql-connector-python==9.1.0