diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3e391ba..ef10bc3 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def has_external_dependency(name):
 try:
     from setuptools import setup
     config['install_requires'] = ['requests', 'six',
-                                  'sqlalchemy', 'alembic'],
+                                  'sqlalchemy==1.0.19', 'alembic'],
 except ImportError:
     pass