diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 3d621041b..52b290567 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ fixes:
 - style: replace format() with f-strings (#1667)
 - migrate from external mock package to stdlib unittest.mock (#1673)
 - fix: import of Mapping from collections.abc (#1675)
+- backend: update irc, telegram and xmpp dependencies (#1655)
 
 
 v6.1.9 (2022-06-11)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 26ae9ffe8..28d65af4c 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -121,15 +121,15 @@ def read(fname, encoding="ascii"):
                 "err-backend-mattermost==3.0.0",
             ],
             "IRC": [
-                "irc==20.0.0",
+                "irc==20.3.0",
             ],
             "telegram": [
-                "python-telegram-bot==13.10",
+                "python-telegram-bot==13.15",
             ],
             "XMPP": [
-                "slixmpp==1.7.1",
-                "pyasn1==0.4.8",
-                "pyasn1-modules==0.2.8",
+                "slixmpp==1.8.4",
+                "pyasn1==0.5.0",
+                "pyasn1-modules==0.3.0",
             ],
             ':sys_platform!="win32"': ["daemonize==2.5.0"],
         },