diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a22a449a..d4dd6ba7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "dask[distributed]",
     "deprecated",
     "healpy",
-    "hipscat >= 0.1.7",
+    "hipscat >= 0.1.8",
     "ipykernel", # Support for Jupyter notebooks
     "pandas < 2.1.0",
     "pyarrow",