diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 20ce83f..b73cc3c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "diskcache~=5.4",
     "fasteners~=0.19.0",
     "h5py~=3.6",
-    "importlib-metadata>=4,<8",
+    "importlib-metadata>=8.0.0,<9",
     "ir-datasets~=0.4",
     "joblib~=1.0",
     "lz4~=4.0",