diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index dcd6aaa21d..f0e717e0e3 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ h5py
 laspy
 localtileserver>=0.10.6
 lonboard
-mapclassify>=2.4.0
+mapclassify>=2.8.1
 mss
 netcdf4
 obstore