diff --git a/demos/benchmarking/docker-jans-loadtesting-jmeter/requirements.txt b/demos/benchmarking/docker-jans-loadtesting-jmeter/requirements.txt
index 8b5b6be7b00..f80d1b41d8f 100644
--- a/demos/benchmarking/docker-jans-loadtesting-jmeter/requirements.txt
+++ b/demos/benchmarking/docker-jans-loadtesting-jmeter/requirements.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 joblib>=1.2.0
 pygtail
 psycopg2-binary
-PyMySQL>=1.1.1
+PyMySQL>=1.2.0