diff --git a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
index bc6de8dea4a4..6f75fb4cbaef 100644
--- a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {% set max_compiler_and_mkl_version = environ.get("MAX_BUILD_CMPL_MKL_VERSION", "2026.0a0") %}
 {% set required_compiler_and_mkl_version = "2025.0" %}
-{% set required_dpctl_version = "0.20.0*" %}
+{% set required_dpctl_version = "0.21.0*" %}
 
 {% set pyproject = load_file_data('pyproject.toml') %}
 {% set py_build_deps = pyproject.get('build-system', {}).get('requires', []) %}
diff --git a/environments/dpctl_pkg.txt b/environments/dpctl_pkg.txt
index 111da6267ec0..29fdceb21e82 100644
--- a/environments/dpctl_pkg.txt
+++ b/environments/dpctl_pkg.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 --index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/dppy/label/dev/simple
-dpctl>=0.20.0dev0
+dpctl>=0.21.0dev0
diff --git a/environments/dpctl_pkg.yml b/environments/dpctl_pkg.yml
index ff0aecfa0bf7..6cea30d0e65a 100644
--- a/environments/dpctl_pkg.yml
+++ b/environments/dpctl_pkg.yml
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ name: Install dpctl package
 channels:
   - dppy/label/dev
 dependencies:
-  - dpctl>=0.20.0dev0
+  - dpctl>=0.21.0dev0
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3f3d83268779..24cf3fe9751a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ dependencies = [
   # "dpcpp-cpp-rt>=0.59.0",
   # "intel-cmplr-lib-rt>=0.59.0"
   # WARNING: use the latest dpctl dev version, otherwise stable w/f will fail
-  "dpctl>=0.20.0dev0",
+  "dpctl>=0.21.0dev0",
   "numpy>=1.25.0"
 ]
 description = "Data Parallel Extension for NumPy"