diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 193bc8b..91a59cf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "ModDotPlot"
-version = "0.8.3"
+version = "0.8.4"
 requires-python = ">= 3.7"
 dependencies = [
   "pysam",
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "mmh3",
   "tk",
   "setproctitle",
-  "numpy==1.26.4"
+  "numpy"
 ]
 authors = [
   {name = "Alex Sweeten", email = "alex.sweeten@nih.gov"},
diff --git a/src/moddotplot/const.py b/src/moddotplot/const.py
index d918332..f283d4a 100644
--- a/src/moddotplot/const.py
+++ b/src/moddotplot/const.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-VERSION = "0.8.3"
+VERSION = "0.8.4"
 COLS = [
     "#query_name",
     "query_start",