diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1601e31..80e7262 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Fixed
+- Unnecessary dependency in setup.py [#171](https://github.com/IN-CORE/pyincore-viz/issues/171)
+- Matplotlib version incompatibility by upgrade in geoutil [#173](https://github.com/IN-CORE/pyincore-viz/issues/173)
+
 ## [1.10.1] - 2023-06-12
 ### Added
 - Google Analytics to the documentation site [#164](https://github.com/IN-CORE/pyincore-viz/issues/164)
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 8a52593..9102bde 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dependencies:
   - ipyleaflet>=0.16.0
   - ipywidgets>=7.6.0
   - lxml>=4.6.3
-  - matplotlib>=3.8.0
+  - matplotlib>=3.8.3
   - networkx>=3.2.1
   - numpy>=1.26.0,<2.0a0
   - owslib>=0.17.1
@@ -23,4 +23,3 @@ dependencies:
   - pytest>=3.9.0
   - python-jose>=3.0
   - rasterio>=1.3.9
-  - openssl<=3.2.0
diff --git a/pyincore_viz/geoutil.py b/pyincore_viz/geoutil.py
index 63ee057..99dea58 100644
--- a/pyincore_viz/geoutil.py
+++ b/pyincore_viz/geoutil.py
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ def plot_raster_file_with_legend(file_path, title=None):
         max = earthquake_nd.max()
 
         # Define the default viridis colormap for viz
-        viz_cmap = cm.get_cmap('viridis', 256)
+        viz_cmap = plt.get_cmap('viridis', 256)
 
         earthquake_nd = np.flip(earthquake_nd, axis=0)
 
diff --git a/recipes/meta.yaml b/recipes/meta.yaml
index 0a7953c..fd66442 100644
--- a/recipes/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/meta.yaml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ requirements:
     - ipyleaflet>=0.16.0
     - ipywidgets>=7.6.0
     - lxml>=4.6.3
-    - matplotlib>=3.8.0
+    - matplotlib>=3.8.3
     - networkx>=3.2.1
     - owslib>=0.17.1
     - pandas>=2.1.2
diff --git a/requirements.min b/requirements.min
index 82f572c..2c88ec3 100644
--- a/requirements.min
+++ b/requirements.min
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ geopandas>=0.14.0
 ipyleaflet>=0.16.0
 ipywidgets>=7.6.0
 lxml>=4.6.3
-matplotlib>=3.8.0
+matplotlib>=3.8.3
 networkx>=3.2.1
 numpy>=1.26.0,<2.0a0
 owslib>=0.17.1
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3ccfe10..0ddb72b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ geopandas>=0.14.0
 ipyleaflet>=0.16.0
 ipywidgets>=7.6.0
 lxml>=4.6.3
-matplotlib>=3.8.0
+matplotlib>=3.8.3
 networkx>=3.2.1
 numpy>=1.26.0,<2.0a0
 owslib>=0.17.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2722b3e..1926993 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
         'ipyleaflet>=0.16.0',
         'ipywidgets>=7.6.0',
         'lxml>=4.6.3',
-        'matplotlib>=3.8.0',
+        'matplotlib>=3.8.3',
         'networkx>=3.2.1',
         'numpy>=1.26.0,<2.0a0',
         'owslib>=0.17.1',
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@
         'pillow',
         'pyincore>=1.11.0',
         'rasterio>=1.3.9',
-        'openssl<=3.2.0'
     ],
 
     extras_require={