diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9f45b28..eed027e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -153,3 +153,6 @@ Feedstock Maintainers
 * [@normanrz](https://github.com/normanrz/)
 * [@rabernat](https://github.com/rabernat/)
 
+
+<!-- dummy commit to enable rerendering -->
+
diff --git a/recipe/meta.yaml b/recipe/meta.yaml
index a5265f5..3ae4577 100644
--- a/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ requirements:
   run:
     - python >=3.9
     - asciitree
-    - numpy >=1.23
+    # Just try to set an upper bound on numpy
+    - numpy >=1.23,<2.1.0a0
     - fasteners
     - numcodecs >=0.10.0
   run_constrained: