diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e5133b71..04a9f8c6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     _PACKAGE_NAME = "sparsezoo-nightly"
 
 _deps = [
-    "numpy>=1.0.0",
+    "numpy>=1.17.0,<2.0",
     "onnx>=1.5.0,<1.15.0",
     "pyyaml>=5.1.0",
     "requests>=2.0.0",