diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 99446f1b..19feed22 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "pydicom>=3.0.1",
   "pynetdicom>=3.0.4",
   "numpy>=2.4.0,<3",
-  "pylibjpeg>=2.0.0",
+  "pylibjpeg>=2.1.0",
   "pylibjpeg-openjpeg>=2.5.0",
   "pillow>=11.0.0",
   "websockets==16.0",