diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 21d791e3..fdb3d82f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "tqdm>=4.64.0",
   "pyyaml>=6.0",
   "toml>=0.10.0",
-  "python-dotenv>=0.20.0",
+  "python-dotenv>=1.2.1",
   "loguru>=0.6.0",
   "structlog>=22.1.0",
   "gensim>=4.3.0"