diff --git a/ci/linting_requirements.txt b/ci/linting_requirements.txt
index 09afbdb..9a4e235 100644
--- a/ci/linting_requirements.txt
+++ b/ci/linting_requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-flake8==5.0.4
+flake8>=5.0.4
 pycodestyle
 pyflakes
 ruff
diff --git a/ci/requirements.txt b/ci/requirements.txt
index e4e1750..5933185 100644
--- a/ci/requirements.txt
+++ b/ci/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 numpy
-pandas
+pandas>=2.0.0
 pyproj
 xarray
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