diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 4af8bdc265b..cdbf39f41bc 100755
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ install_requires =
     appdirs>=1.4.4
     appdirs-stubs>=0.1.0
     cryptography>=3.4.0
-    httpcore<0.17.3
+    httpcore>=0.17.3
     httpx[http2]==0.24.0
     pydantic[dotenv]>=1.8.2,<2.0
     python-dateutil>=2.8.2
diff --git a/src/firebolt/async_db/connection.py b/src/firebolt/async_db/connection.py
index c7d2dc21fa2..24bbe00175e 100644
--- a/src/firebolt/async_db/connection.py
+++ b/src/firebolt/async_db/connection.py
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 from types import TracebackType
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
 
-from httpcore.backends.auto import AutoBackend
-from httpcore.backends.base import AsyncNetworkStream
+from httpcore._backends.auto import AutoBackend
+from httpcore._backends.base import AsyncNetworkStream
 from httpx import AsyncHTTPTransport, HTTPStatusError, RequestError, Timeout
 
 from firebolt.async_db.cursor import Cursor
diff --git a/src/firebolt/db/connection.py b/src/firebolt/db/connection.py
index 3a29d7852e5..cf591c13eef 100644
--- a/src/firebolt/db/connection.py
+++ b/src/firebolt/db/connection.py
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
 from warnings import warn
 
-from httpcore.backends.base import NetworkStream
-from httpcore.backends.sync import SyncBackend
+from httpcore._backends.base import NetworkStream
+from httpcore._backends.sync import SyncBackend
 from httpx import HTTPStatusError, HTTPTransport, RequestError, Timeout
 from readerwriterlock.rwlock import RWLockWrite