diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 51f6715f..c6f808b4 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ dev =
     bump2version
     pre-commit
     scipy
-    spacy
+    spacy<3.8.0  # see #864
     coverage[toml]
     pytest
     pytest-cov
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ publishing =
     twine
     wheel
 text =
-    spacy
+    spacy<3.8.0  # see #864
 dashboard =
     importlib_resources;python_version<'3.10'
     keras
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ dashboard =
     plotly
     scipy
     seaborn
-    spacy
+    spacy<3.8.0  # see #864
     streamlit-aggrid
     streamlit
     streamlit_option_menu
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ notebooks =
     pytorch_lightning
     scipy
     skl2onnx
-    spacy
+    spacy<3.8.0  # see #864
     seaborn
     tf2onnx
     torch