diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e137b4deca2e4de3952d484f52c82b3716d81574..60547ffffb68d3c8e4dab32f0fcbae9ddfd0e589 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 requires-python = ">=3.7"
 
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools >= 40.6.0", "pybind11 >= 2.6.0", "ducc0", "matplotlib", "h5py", "nifty8"]
+requires = ["setuptools >= 40.6.0", "pybind11 >= 2.6.0", "ducc0 >= 0.23.0", "nifty8 >= 8.0"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3f591ad44726f3bde61240c07c7a60742efa3d94..631bbd77e3f2c1981b679eb40a87eef0a30e7923 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ setup(
     packages=find_packages(include=["resolve", "resolve.*", "resolve_support", "resolve_support.*"]),
     zip_safe=True,
     dependency_links=[],
-    install_requires=["ducc0", "numpy", "nifty8"],
+    install_requires=["ducc0>=0.23.0", "numpy", "nifty8>=8.0"],
     extras_require={"full": ("astropy", "pytest", "pytest-cov", "mpi4py", "python-casacore", "h5py", "matplotlib")},
     ext_modules=extensions,
     entry_points={"console_scripts":