diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5a3023b7c..d8c734f5b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # `pip install qutip` before you install pycqed
 
 qcodes
-numpy==1.21  # Required for 3rd party packages that still rely on (deprecated) numpy dtype aliases. Such as np.float, np.complex, etc. (sklearn, ...)
+numpy==1.22.0  # Required for 3rd party packages that still rely on (deprecated) numpy dtype aliases. Such as np.float, np.complex, etc. (sklearn, ...)
 cython
 scipy
 cma