diff --git a/images/hub/requirements.txt b/images/hub/requirements.txt
index 244e1f9495..264c8081e8 100644
--- a/images/hub/requirements.txt
+++ b/images/hub/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ git+git://github.com/jupyterhub/kubespawner.git@8a6d66e04768565c0fc56c790a5fc42b
 kubernetes==8.0.*
 nullauthenticator==1.0
 oauthenticator==0.8.2
-pymysql==0.9.2
+pymysql==1.1.1
 psycopg2==2.7.5
 pycurl==7.43.0.*
 statsd==3.2.2