diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7cb9539..bfe7b7a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pydantic",
     "pymilvus[milvus-lite]; platform_machine != 'aarch64'",
     "pymilvus; platform_machine == 'aarch64'",
-    "milvus-lite>=2.5.2rc1; platform_machine != 'aarch64'",  # TODO: remove once 2.5.2+ is released (pkg_resources deprecation)
+    "milvus-lite>=2.5.1; platform_machine != 'aarch64'",  # TODO: remove once 2.5.2+ is released (pkg_resources deprecation)
     "sentence-transformers",
     "typer>=0.9.0",
     "uvicorn",