diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ee4360bd5bd..db3fdaadb94 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
 dependencies = [
-    "botorch[pymoo]>=0.17.2,<0.17.3dev9999",
+    "botorch[pymoo]>=0.18.0,<0.18.1dev9999",
     "jinja2",  # also a Plotly dep
     "pandas",
     "scipy",