diff --git a/docs/source/release_notes.rst b/docs/source/release_notes.rst
index ebc2e24c3b..5bd70848d1 100644
--- a/docs/source/release_notes.rst
+++ b/docs/source/release_notes.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Release Notes
         * Added ``thresholding_objective`` argument to ``AutoMLSearch`` for binary classification problems :pr:`2320`
         * Added change for ``k_neighbors`` parameter in SMOTE Oversamplers to automatically handle small samples :pr:`2375`
         * Changed naming for ``Logistic Regression Classifier`` file :pr:`2399`
+        * Pinned pytest-timeout to fix minimum dependence checker :pr:`2425`
         * Replaced ``Elastic Net Classifier`` base class with ``Logistsic Regression`` to avoid ``NaN`` outputs :pr:`2420`
     * Changes
         * Replaced `allowed_pipelines` with `allowed_component_graphs` :pr:`2364`
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index ce40c00875..a4b1924605 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ wheel>=0.33.1
 setuptools>=50.0.1
 pytest==6.0.1
 pytest-xdist==2.1.0
-pytest-timeout
+pytest-timeout==1.4.2
 pytest-cov==2.10.1
 nbval==0.9.3
 IPython>=5.0.0