diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 64978120..b1650e85 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ catcher start, stop or stop identified via a timeout).
 
 ### Changed
 - Use psycopg3 (on pypi as `psycopg`) rather than psycopg2 to enable numpy 2.0
-compatibility
+compatibility.
 - Add compatibility with pyuvdata>=3.0
 - Updated minimum dependency versions: cartopy>=0.21, numpy>=1.23, pyyaml>=5.4.1
-python>=3.10
+sqlalchemy>=2.0, python>=3.10
 - Updated minimum optional dependency versions: h5py>=3.4, pytest>=6.2.5
 - Dropped support for python 3.7
 - The logic for time filtering in real time getter methods in mc_session to support
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b227c296..efcff4f7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ The required dependencies are:
 - pyyaml >= 5.4.1
 - redis-py >= 4.3.4 (Note that this is called "redis" on pypi and "redis-py" on conda)
 - setuptools_scm <7.0|>=7.0.3
-- sqlalchemy >= 1.4
+- sqlalchemy >= 2.0
 
 the optional dependencies are:
 - h5py >= 3.4.0
diff --git a/ci/min_deps.yaml b/ci/min_deps.yaml
index 0e986657..5b0d3053 100644
--- a/ci/min_deps.yaml
+++ b/ci/min_deps.yaml
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ dependencies:
   - pyyaml>=5.4.1
   - redis-py>=4.3.4
   - setuptools_scm<7.0|>=7.0.3
-  - sqlalchemy>=1.4.0
+  - sqlalchemy>=2.0
diff --git a/ci/min_versions.yaml b/ci/min_versions.yaml
index 04594cb6..6ca1dd9a 100644
--- a/ci/min_versions.yaml
+++ b/ci/min_versions.yaml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ dependencies:
   - pyyaml==5.4.1
   - redis-py==4.3.4
   - setuptools_scm<7.0
-  - sqlalchemy==1.4.*
+  - sqlalchemy==2.0.0
   - tabulate==0.8.10
   - pip:
       - hera_qm==2.0.*
diff --git a/ci/publish.yml b/ci/publish.yml
index 208ca61f..a4042a2b 100644
--- a/ci/publish.yml
+++ b/ci/publish.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ dependencies:
   - pyyaml>=5.4.1
   - redis-py>=4.3.4
   - setuptools_scm<7.0|>=7.0.3
-  - sqlalchemy>=1.4.0
+  - sqlalchemy>=2.0
   - pip
   - pip:
      - build
diff --git a/ci/tests.yaml b/ci/tests.yaml
index 41544c8d..2205b868 100644
--- a/ci/tests.yaml
+++ b/ci/tests.yaml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ dependencies:
   - pyyaml>=5.4.1
   - redis-py>=4.3.4
   - setuptools_scm<7.0|>=7.0.3
-  - sqlalchemy>=1.4.0
+  - sqlalchemy>=2.0
   - tabulate>=0.8.10
   - tornado>=6.2
   - pip:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1e1c0096..874bdb19 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
         "pyyaml>=5.4.1",
         "redis>=4.3.4",  # Note that this gets redis-py, which is named "redis" on pypi
         "setuptools_scm!=7.0.0,!=7.0.1,!=7.0.2",
-        "sqlalchemy>=1.4",
+        "sqlalchemy>=2.0",
     ],
     "extras_require": {
         "sqlite": ["tabulate"],