diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index ee0111b32a..fbe4079fa5 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 bump2version==1.0.1
-Babel==2.12.1
+Babel==2.16.0
 black==24.10.0
 ruff===0.7.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8fc384c2ba..b4fced668a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jsonschema==4.22.0
 apispec==6.3.1
 apispec-webframeworks==0.5.2
 blinker==1.8.1
-Babel==2.12.1
+Babel==2.16.0
 PyYAML==6.0.1
 python-frontmatter==1.1.0
 pyjwt >= 2.0.1, < 2.9.0