diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3cd3afc..de0db5a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
     # TODO #71: these should be handled within PyMPDATA?
     "numba<0.57.0",
-    "numpy<1.25.0",
+    "numpy<1.27.0",
     "numba_mpi>=0.30",
     "PyMPDATA==1.0.14",
     "mpi4py",