diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7f6f90b11..b70fc4d12 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@ requires-python = ">=3.9"
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = [
   "boost_histogram>=0.13",
-  "dask-awkward>=2024.12.1",
-  "dask[dataframe] >=2022,<2025",
+  "dask-awkward>=2025.2.0",
   "dask[array,distributed]",
   "hist>=1.2",
   "pandas",