diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 50db6796..9eda931a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-anndata==0.7.8
+anndata==0.8.0
 dask==2021.3.0
 numpy>=1.16.4
 pandas==1.1.5