diff --git a/mautrix_telegram/__main__.py b/mautrix_telegram/__main__.py
index 50b64945..35714151 100644
--- a/mautrix_telegram/__main__.py
+++ b/mautrix_telegram/__main__.py
@@ -58,10 +58,6 @@ class TelegramBridge(Bridge):
 
     def prepare_db(self) -> None:
         super().prepare_db()
-        if not self.db.has_table("alembic_version"):
-            self.log.critical("alembic_version table not found. "
-                              "Did you forget to `alembic upgrade head`?")
-            sys.exit(10)
         init_db(self.db)
         self.session_container = AlchemySessionContainer(
             engine=self.db, table_base=Base, session=False,
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e217238f..a8e824a8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
 
     install_requires=[
         "aiohttp>=3.0.1,<4",
-        "mautrix>=0.4.0.dev52,<0.5",
+        "mautrix>=0.4.0.dev53,<0.5",
         "SQLAlchemy>=1.2.3,<2",
         "alembic>=1.0.0,<2",
         "commonmark>=0.8.1,<1",