diff --git a/py4DSTEM/version.py b/py4DSTEM/version.py
index 7be84a82a..4009e43c9 100644
--- a/py4DSTEM/version.py
+++ b/py4DSTEM/version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-__version__='0.14.1'
+__version__='0.14.2'
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 06c85ea70..0afcb8bba 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
         'gdown >= 4.4.0',
         'dask >= 2.3.0',
         'distributed >= 2.3.0',
-        'emdfile >= 0.0.6',
+        'emdfile == 0.0.8',
         ],
     extras_require={
         'ipyparallel': ['ipyparallel >= 6.2.4', 'dill >= 0.3.3'],