diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e70f1dc314..1541f8d42b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "attrs>=20.1,<24",
   "fastapi>=0.75.2,<0.99.0",
   # we may not need http2
-  "httpx[http2]>=0.21.0,<1",
+  "httpx[http2]>=0.21.0,<0.28.0",
   "pydantic>=1.9,<2",
   "PyYAML",
   "requests>=2,<3",