diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 027c066..1950b50 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ yt-dlp>=2025.1
 
 # Utilities
 python-dotenv>=1.2,<2.0
-structlog>=25.5,<26.0
+structlog>=26.1,<26.2
 
 # HTML sanitization for scraped post descriptions (FC-2d provenance)
 nh3>=0.3,<0.4