diff --git a/requirements-core.txt b/requirements-core.txt
index 5950d4f260a..feb8908354c 100644
--- a/requirements-core.txt
+++ b/requirements-core.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ numpy>=1.21.0
 openpyxl>=3.1.3
 openTSNE>=0.6.2,!=0.7.0  # 0.7.0 segfaults
 packaging
-pandas>=1.4.0,!=1.5.0,!=2.0.0
+pandas>=2.0.1
 python-louvain>=0.13
 pyyaml
 requests
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 3c2d5eee321..a51f0afee32 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ deps =
     oldest: numpy==1.23.2
     oldest: openpyxl==3.1.3
     oldest: openTSNE==1.0.0
-    oldest: pandas==1.5.1
+    oldest: pandas==2.0.1
     oldest: python-louvain==0.13
     # oldest: pyyaml
     # oldest: requests