diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ef10bc3..46a0151 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==1.0.19', 'alembic'],
+                                  'alembic==0.9.4', 'sqlalchemy==1.0.19'],
 except ImportError:
     pass