diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index 3837c0527..8b1f0d4e2 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ alibi-testing @ git+https://github.com/SeldonIO/alibi-testing@master#egg=alibi-t
 pre-commit>=1.20.0, <4.0.0
 tox>=3.21.0, <5.0.0 # used to generate licence info via `make licenses`
 twine>3.2.0, <5.0.0
-packaging>=19.0, <24.0 # Used to check scipy version for CVMDrift test. Can be removed once python 3.6 support dropped (and scipy lower bound >=1.7.0).
+packaging>=24.1, <25.0 # Used to check scipy version for CVMDrift test. Can be removed once python 3.6 support dropped (and scipy lower bound >=1.7.0).
 xgboost>=1.3.2, <3.0.0 # Install for use in testing since we support serialization of xgboost models under the sklearn API