diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 46a5267..1f38ece 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 urllib3>=1.21.1<1.27 # version required by requests
-#git+https://github.com/HXLStandard/libhxl-python.git@dev#egg=libhxl # for development
-libhxl==4.29 # for release
+git+https://github.com/HXLStandard/libhxl-python.git@dev#egg=libhxl # for development
+#libhxl==4.29 # for release
 ckanapi>=3.5
 flask-caching
 flask>=2.1.2
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b7ffe0f..19c1359 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
     zip_safe = False,
     install_requires=[
         'urllib3>=1.21.1,<1.27', # version required by requests
-        #'libhxl @ git+https://github.com/HXLStandard/libhxl-python.git@dev', # for development
-        'libhxl==4.29', # for release
+        'libhxl @ git+https://github.com/HXLStandard/libhxl-python.git@dev', # for development
+        #'libhxl==4.29', # for release
         'ckanapi>=3.5',
         'flask-caching',
         'flask>=2.1.2',