diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 62a8e29eb5b..ac639b098a9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ cryptography==43.0.1
 tzdata==2025.1 # IANA time zone database
 litellm-proxy-extras==0.2.11 # for proxy extras - e.g. prisma migrations
 ### LITELLM PACKAGE DEPENDENCIES
-python-dotenv==1.0.0 # for env
+python-dotenv==1.0.1 # for env
 tiktoken==0.8.0 # for calculating usage
 importlib-metadata==6.8.0 # for random utils
 tokenizers==0.20.2 # for calculating usage