diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b193a67f7..93a059dcd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ examples = [
 test = [
     "pytest>=5.0",
     "netCDF4>=1.1.0",
-    "vcrpy~=1.5,!=1.7.0,!=1.7.1,!=1.7.2,!=1.7.3",
+    "vcrpy>=3.0",
     "xarray>=0.10.2"
 ]
 extras = [