diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a7e6381a58..bb985aaea6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "huggingface-hub>=0.30,<0.35",
   "jsonargparse[signatures]>=4.37,<=4.41; python_version>='3.10'", # required to work with Python >=3.10
   "lightning>=2.5",
-  "psutil==7",
+  "psutil==7.1.3",
   "safetensors>=0.4.3",
   # tokenization in most models:
   "tokenizers>=0.21",