diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d36781893..71290379a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pyicu==2.12
 google-cloud-vision==3.7.2
 tesserocr==2.7.1
 spacy==3.6.1 # pinned because spacy 3.8 requires numpy >2 which breaks fasttext (see https://groups.google.com/g/fasttext-library/c/4EOM0-S6xHU)
-numpy<2.0.0 # pinned because otherwise spacy requires an incompatible numpy
+numpy<3.0.0 # pinned because otherwise spacy requires an incompatible numpy
 fingerprints==1.1.1
 fasttext==0.9.2
 pika==1.3.2