diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index dc04e815f8..85bfa56b3b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 
 dependencies = [
-  "screed>=1.0.5",
+  "screed>=1.1.2,<2",
   "cffi>=1.14.0",
   "numpy",
   "matplotlib",