diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ceb6877063..6b76dd3053 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ wheel = [
   "nibabel == 5.2.0",
   "netCDF4==1.6.5",
   "networkx==3.3",
-  "numpy==1.26.4",
+  "numpy==2.2.4",
   "openmm==8.2.0 ; platform_machine != 'aarch64'",
   "packaging==24.2",
   # as per Tristan's request in ticket #3055"