diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 49f220cae4c..b370a23ef1f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ python = ">=3.9,<4.0"
 fastuuid = "0.14.0"
 httpx = "0.28.1"
 openai = "2.30.0"
-python-dotenv = "1.0.1"
+python-dotenv = ">=1.0.1"
 tiktoken = "0.12.0"
 importlib-metadata = "8.5.0"
 tokenizers = "0.22.2"