diff --git a/ci/requirements.txt b/ci/requirements.txt
index 77b5905d577..658acf872de 100644
--- a/ci/requirements.txt
+++ b/ci/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 c2cciutils[checks,publish]==1.6.22
-importlib-metadata<8.0.0 # issue with twine, see: https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata/issues/492
+importlib-metadata<8.2.1 # issue with twine, see: https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata/issues/492
 poetry==1.8.3
 pre-commit==3.7.1
 poetry-plugin-drop-python-upper-constraint==0.1.0