diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 549b0853..2f9117af 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ pytest-mock
 aiofiles
 jinja2
 types-Jinja2
-starlette
+# 0.15.0 breaks session management for sub-pages; the version >0.18 will fix it when released
+starlette == 0.14.2
 uvicorn == 0.16.0
 itsdangerous
 python-multipart
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f2ca6514..1630dec4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with python 3.6
 # To update, run:
 #
-#    pip-compile requirements.in
+#    pip-compile
 #
 aiocontextvars==0.2.2
     # via databases
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ aiofiles==0.8.0
     # via -r requirements.in
 alabaster==0.7.12
     # via sphinx
-anyio==3.5.0
-    # via starlette
 asgiref==3.4.1
     # via uvicorn
 asyncpg==0.25.0
@@ -28,13 +26,8 @@ charset-normalizer==2.0.10
     # via requests
 click==8.0.3
     # via uvicorn
-contextlib2==21.6.0
-    # via starlette
 contextvars==2.4
-    # via
-    #   aiocontextvars
-    #   anyio
-    #   sniffio
+    # via aiocontextvars
 daiquiri==3.0.1
     # via -r requirements.in
 databases[postgresql]==0.5.5
@@ -42,7 +35,6 @@ databases[postgresql]==0.5.5
 dataclasses==0.8 ; python_version < "3.7"
     # via
     #   -r requirements.in
-    #   anyio
     #   h11
     #   pydantic
 distro==1.6.0
@@ -62,9 +54,7 @@ h11==0.13.0
 hupper==1.10.3
     # via -r requirements.in
 idna==3.3
-    # via
-    #   anyio
-    #   requests
+    # via requests
 imagesize==1.3.0
     # via sphinx
 immutables==0.16
@@ -134,8 +124,6 @@ requests==2.27.1
     #   sphinx
 six==1.16.0
     # via python-multipart
-sniffio==1.2.0
-    # via anyio
 snowballstemmer==2.2.0
     # via sphinx
 sphinx==4.4.0
@@ -160,7 +148,7 @@ sqlalchemy==1.4.30
     # via
     #   -r requirements.in
     #   databases
-starlette==0.17.1
+starlette==0.14.2
     # via -r requirements.in
 toml==0.10.2
     # via pytest
@@ -179,14 +167,12 @@ types-urllib3==1.26.7
 typing-extensions==4.0.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements.in
-    #   anyio
     #   asgiref
     #   asyncpg
     #   h11
     #   importlib-metadata
     #   mypy
     #   pydantic
-    #   starlette
     #   uvicorn
 urllib3==1.26.8
     # via requests