diff --git a/backend/pyproject.toml b/backend/pyproject.toml
index 858dde72..468f7297 100644
--- a/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "sgp4==2.25",
     "meshtastic>=2.5.0",
     "orjson>=3.10.0",
-    "paho-mqtt>=1.6.0,<2.0.0",
+    "paho-mqtt>=1.6.0,<3.0.0",
     "PyNaCl>=1.5.0",
     "slowapi==0.1.9",
     "vaderSentiment>=3.3.0",