diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ea2cbfe..71f748f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ description = "A softioc to control a PandABlocks-FPGA."
 dependencies = [
     "fastcs@git+https://github.com/DiamondLightSource/FastCS@panda-conversion-improvements",
     "pandablocks~=0.10.0",
-    "numpy<2",    # until https://github.com/mdavidsaver/p4p/issues/145 is fixed
+    "numpy<3",    # until https://github.com/mdavidsaver/p4p/issues/145 is fixed
     "pydantic>2",
     "h5py",
 ]