diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index 90c2eef..3da121b 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ovos-utils~=0.0.35
 ovos-config~=0.0.10
 phoneme-guesser~=0.1
 ovos-plugin-manager~=0.0.24
-neon-utils[network]~=1.6,>=1.7.1a3
+neon-utils[network]~=1.8
 click~=8.0
 click-default-group~=1.2
 ovos-bus-client~=0.0.3