diff --git a/recipes/pycodec2/__init__.py b/recipes/pycodec2/__init__.py
index df11c3e..6bb567b 100644
--- a/recipes/pycodec2/__init__.py
+++ b/recipes/pycodec2/__init__.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import sh
 class PyCodec2Recipe(CythonRecipe):
     url = "https://github.com/markqvist/pycodec2/archive/refs/heads/main.zip"
     # src_filename = "../../../pycodec2"
-    depends = ["setuptools", "numpy", "Cython", "codec2"]
+    depends = ["setuptools", "numpy<=1.26.4", "Cython", "codec2"]
     call_hostpython_via_targetpython = False
 
     def get_recipe_env(self, arch, with_flags_in_cc=True):