diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b4fc2c8cca..1e9ae70fdd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "jsonargparse[signatures]>=4.31,<=4.32.1; python_version<'3.10'", # 4.33 does not seem to be compatible with Python 3.9
   "jsonargparse[signatures]>=4.37,<=4.41; python_version>'3.9'",    # required to work with python3.12+
   "lightning>=2.5",
-  "psutil==7",
+  "psutil==7.1.3",
   "safetensors>=0.4.3",
   # tokenization in most models:
   "tokenizers>=0.21",