diff --git a/dockerfiles/base/requirements.txt b/dockerfiles/base/requirements.txt
index d1eb0f426ce..1a5e6992b92 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/base/requirements.txt
+++ b/dockerfiles/base/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ urllib3>=1.25.4, <1.27
 blosc~=1.7
 cloudpickle~=1.5
 dask-kubernetes~=0.11.0
-dask-ml~=1.4
+dask-ml~=1.4,<1.9.0
 dask[complete]~=2.12
 # see main requirements.txt for reasoning the resrictions
 distributed>=2.23, <3
diff --git a/dockerfiles/models-gpu/requirements.txt b/dockerfiles/models-gpu/requirements.txt
index c60488a2fbd..bad2fa29927 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/models-gpu/requirements.txt
+++ b/dockerfiles/models-gpu/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ urllib3>=1.25.4, <1.27
 blosc~=1.7
 cloudpickle~=1.5
 dask-kubernetes~=0.11.0
-dask-ml~=1.4
+dask-ml~=1.4,<1.9.0
 dask[complete]~=2.12
 # see main requirements.txt for reasoning the resrictions
 distributed>=2.23, <3
diff --git a/dockerfiles/models/requirements.txt b/dockerfiles/models/requirements.txt
index eefaa92282e..00275ff7b6c 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/models/requirements.txt
+++ b/dockerfiles/models/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ blosc~=1.7
 bokeh~=2.0
 cloudpickle~=1.5
 dask-kubernetes~=0.11.0
-dask-ml~=1.4
+dask-ml~=1.4,<1.9.0
 dask[complete]~=2.12
 # see main requirements.txt for reasoning the resrictions
 distributed>=2.23, <3