diff --git a/packages/data/requirements.txt b/packages/data/requirements.txt
index 2b559ebf2a0..3ac057e536e 100644
--- a/packages/data/requirements.txt
+++ b/packages/data/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ galaxy-files
 galaxy-objectstore
 galaxy-sequence-utils
 galaxy-util[template]
-alembic==1.7.4; python_version >= "3.6"
+alembic
 bdbag
 bx-python
 contextvars; python_version >= "3.6" and python_version < "3.7"