diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1d2ce2d..bd430b8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ classifiers = [
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dynamic = ["version"]
 dependencies = [
-    "numpy~=1.21",
+    "numpy>=1.26",
     "klamath~=1.2",
     ]