diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 111ff3b5..55d61093 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ aiohttp~=3.8
 v3io~=0.5.14
 # exclude pandas 1.5.0 due to https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/48767
 # and 1.5.* due to https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/49203
-pandas>=1, !=1.5.*, <3
+# pandas 2.2 requires sqlalchemy 2
+pandas>=1, !=1.5.*, <2.2
 # upper limit is just a safeguard - tested with numpy 1.26.2
 numpy>=1.16.5,<1.27
 # <15 is just a safeguard - no tests performed with pyarrow higher than 14