diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e54550956b5..1fcf4c3ca7d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 requires = ["setuptools",
             "wheel",
             "cython>=0.29.21",
-            "numpy>=2.0",
+            "numpy>=2.0.0",
             ]