diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fbf58041..e80eadee 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ beautifulsoup4==4.14.3 # used by a lot of scripts to parse html
 deepdiff==8.6.1 # used in update-release-data.py
 html5lib==1.1 # used in conjunction with beautifulsoup4
 mwparserfromhell==0.7.2 # used in unrealircd.py
-packaging==25.0 # used in update-product-data.py
+packaging==26.0 # used in update-product-data.py
 playwright==1.57.0 # used by a few scripts to parse html
 pre-commit==3.5.0 # used to check code before commit
 python-frontmatter==1.1.0 # used in endoflife.py to parse products YAML frontmatters