diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index db5b428b5..86d06ab63 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ tensorflow = [
   "tensorflow<=2.15.1"  # v2.16.1 with consequence on tf2onnx v1.16.1 (latest) has an issue with Keras 3 installed in py3.11+ (https://github.com/onnx/tensorflow-onnx/issues/2319)
 ]
 text = [
-  "spacy>=3.4.2",   # the first version of spacy that supports python 3.11 is spacy v3.4.2
+  "spacy>=3.4.2,<3.8",   # the first version of spacy that supports python 3.11 is spacy v3.4.2; 3.8.2 has dependency conflict.
   "wordcloud>=1.8.1"
 ]
 torch = [