diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bee6edfc..2a6bebe2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.12"
 dependencies = [
     "bottleneck >= 1.3,< 1.3.8",
     "numba >= 0.55.1,< 0.59",
-    "numexpr >= 2.8, < 2.8.9",
+    "numexpr >= 2.8, < 2.9.1",
     "numpy >= 1.18.5,<2",
     "pandas >= 1.4,< 2.3",
     "pandera >= 0.12, < 0.19",