diff --git a/backend/setup.py b/backend/setup.py
index bab53270..705a2b3c 100644
--- a/backend/setup.py
+++ b/backend/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ setup(
     install_requires=[
         "appdirs",
         "boto3",
-        "bugout",
+        "bugout>=0.1.19",
         "fastapi",
         "moonstreamdb>=0.2.2",
         "humbug",