diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e4c6157..0390fe0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         "protoc-gen-openapiv2>=0.0.1",
         "googleapis-common-protos>=1.56.1,<1.66.0",
         "deprecation>=2.1.0",
-        "python-dotenv~=1.0.1",
+        "python-dotenv>=1.0.1,<1.2.0",
         "Faker~=25.8.0"
     ],
     url="https://github.com/scalekit-inc/scalekit-sdk-python",