diff --git a/AUTHORS.txt b/AUTHORS.txt
index 102b2e342..891fe947f 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.txt
+++ b/AUTHORS.txt
@@ -56,3 +56,4 @@ Valentin Iovene - val [at] too [dot] gy
 Julian Wollrath
 Mattori Birnbaum - me [at] mattori [dot] com - https://mattori.com
 Pi R
+Alnoman Kamil - noman [at] kamil [dot] gr - https://kamil.gr
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index deb8c9299..47cb66302 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ may want to subscribe to `GitHub's tag feed
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 not released yet
 
-* UPDATED REQUIREMENT urwid is now required >= 2.1.0
+* UPDATED REQUIREMENT urwid is now required >= 2.6.15
 * NEW REQUIREMENT for tests on python >= 3.12: pkg_resources
 * optimization in ikhal when editing events in the far future or past
 * FIX an issue in ikhal with updating the view of the event list after editing
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 060882a89..597a6046a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "click>=3.2",
     "click_log>=0.2.0",
     "icalendar>=4.0.3",
-    "urwid>=2.1.0",
+    "urwid>=2.6.15",
     "pyxdg",
     "pytz",
     "python-dateutil",