diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 51473c19d41ddfbc14507c643758aece381e62e2..8c691a02e667a43e40967638d52b3e0d9e9dfa2b 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ numpy>=1.16.2
 recordtype>=1.3
 matplotlib>=3.0.2
 Pillow>=5.4.1
-msgpack==0.6.1
+msgpack>=1.0.0,<2.0.0
 msgpack-numpy>=0.4.4.0
 svgutils>=0.3.1
 pyarrow>=0.13.0