diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3518112..21ebb42 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
     "jinja2              ~= 3.1",
-    "pydantic            >= 1.10, < 2.0",
+    "pydantic            >= 2.8.0, < 3.0",
     "tomli               ~= 2.0; python_version<'3.11'",
     "python-box[]        ~= 7.0",
     "attrs               >= 22.1,< 24.0",