diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 21732e9548..98956badb4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # this is only for RTD because it uses setup.py install instead of pip
 Cython
 #docutils<0.18
-numpy>=1.17,<2.0.0
+numpy>=1.17,<3.0.0
 astropy
 asdf
 gwcs
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 864faf860a..f977c80986 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
           'jinja2>=3.0',
           'jsonschema>=3.0',
           'matplotlib>=3.1',
-          'numpy>=1.17,<2',
+          'numpy>=1.17,<3',
           'psutil>=5.6',
           'pyerfa>=1.7',
           'python-dateutil>=2.5.3',