diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3177.dependencies.md b/doc/changelog.d/3177.dependencies.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a98e42acf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/3177.dependencies.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+build: bump numpy from 1.26.4 to 2.0.0
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diff --git a/minimum_requirements.txt b/minimum_requirements.txt
index dcd925a380..866c4e8c4f 100644
--- a/minimum_requirements.txt
+++ b/minimum_requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ansys-api-mapdl==0.5.2
 importlib-metadata==8.5.0
-numpy==1.26.4
+numpy==2.0.0
 platformdirs==4.3.2
 psutil==6.0.0
 pyansys-tools-versioning==0.6.0
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 34c5ac0cca..fffa8a3e26 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "importlib-metadata>=4.0",
     "matplotlib>=3.0.0",  # for colormaps for pyvista
     "numpy>=1.14.0,<1.25.0; python_version < '3.9'",
-    "numpy>=1.14.0,<2.0.0; python_version >= '3.9'",
+    "numpy>=1.14.0,<3.0.0; python_version >= '3.9'",
     "pexpect>=4.8.0 ; platform_system=='Linux'",
     "platformdirs>=3.6.0",
     "protobuf>=3.12.2",  # minimum required based on latest ansys-grpc-mapdl
diff --git a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mesh/mesh.py b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mesh/mesh.py
index 10099b0f03..6df042cd05 100644
--- a/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mesh/mesh.py
+++ b/src/ansys/mapdl/core/mesh/mesh.py
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ def fix_missing_midside(cells, nodes, celltypes, offset, angles, nnum):
     unique_nodes, idx_a, idx_b = unique_rows(temp_nodes[nnodes:])
 
     # rewrite node numbers
-    cells[mask] = idx_b + nnodes
+    cells[mask] = (idx_b + nnodes).ravel()
     nextra = idx_a.shape[0]  # extra unique nodes
     nodes_new = nodes_new[: nnodes + nextra]
     nodes_new[nnodes:] = unique_nodes