diff --git a/server/Cargo.toml b/server/Cargo.toml
index 0527c5f5..984e4d1b 100644
--- a/server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/server/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ tokio-tungstenite = { workspace = true }
 # against a missing system libsqlite3.
 #
 # The 0.35 pin is the ceiling: rusqlite 0.37 (matrix-sdk-sqlite) requires
-# 0.35.x exactly, and sqlx-sqlite 0.9.0-alpha.1 requires >=0.30, <0.36. Bumping
-# this needs one of those upstreams to widen their range first.
+# 0.35.x exactly, and sqlx-sqlite 0.9.0 requires >=0.30.1, <0.38. Bumping this
+# needs matrix-sdk to move to a newer rusqlite first; sqlx then allows up to
+# 0.37.x.
 libsqlite3-sys = { version = "0.35.0", features = ["bundled"] }
 sqlx = { workspace = true }
 wait-timeout = "0.2.1"