diff --git a/beautiful-jekyll-theme.gemspec b/beautiful-jekyll-theme.gemspec
index 8ffd66238092..e3804767c8ab 100644
--- a/beautiful-jekyll-theme.gemspec
+++ b/beautiful-jekyll-theme.gemspec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll-paginate", "~> 1.1"
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll-sitemap", "~> 1.4"
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "kramdown-parser-gfm", "~> 1.1"
-  spec.add_runtime_dependency "kramdown", "~> 2.3.0"
+  spec.add_runtime_dependency "kramdown", ">= 2.3", "< 2.5"
 
   spec.add_development_dependency "bundler", ">= 1.16"
   spec.add_development_dependency "rake", "~> 12.0"