diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4c6f32da89..302b67865f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ strict-forcefields-torch-limited = [
     "torch==2.2.2; sys_platform == 'darwin' or sys_platform == 'win32'",
     "torch==2.2.0; sys_platform == 'linux'",
     "torchdata==0.7.1",
-    "nequip==0.17.0", # requires numpy<2 because of matscipy
+    "nequip==0.17.1", # requires numpy<2 because of matscipy
     "numpy==1.26.4",
 ]
 strict-forcefields-e3nn-limited = [