diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1884c5b8..320168c8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ install_requires = [
     'pygments < 3',
     'pygobject < 3.40.1',
     'pyopenssl < 21.0.0',
-    'python-dateutil < 3',
+    'python-dateutil >= 2.8.1, < 3',
     'python-potr < 1.1',
     'pyxdg < 0.30',
     'sat_tmp >= 0.8.0b1, < 0.9',