diff --git a/python-fastapi.spec b/python-fastapi.spec
index ca85809..2f2b203 100644
--- a/python-fastapi.spec
+++ b/python-fastapi.spec
@@ -286,7 +286,8 @@ sed -r -i 's/("(mypy|black|flake8|isort|autoflake)\b.*",)/# \1/' pyproject.toml
 # auto-generated PEP 561 stub packages:
 sed -r -i 's/("types-(u|or)json\b.*",)/# \1/' pyproject.toml
 # Selectively allow newer versions for certain tightly-pinned dependencies:
-sed -r -i 's/("((httpx|pytest)\b)[^<"]*),[[:blank:]]*<[^"]*/\1/' pyproject.toml
+sed -r -i 's/("((databases|httpx|pytest)\b)[^<"]*),[[:blank:]]*<[^"]*/\1/' \
+    pyproject.toml
 
 # Remove bundled js-termynal 0.0.1; since we are not building documentation, we
 # do this very bluntly: