diff --git a/.azure-pipelines/ci-conda-env.txt b/.azure-pipelines/ci-conda-env.txt
index 23081b8ff..4c479135b 100644
--- a/.azure-pipelines/ci-conda-env.txt
+++ b/.azure-pipelines/ci-conda-env.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ conda-forge::hdf5
 conda-forge::matplotlib-base
 conda-forge::mrcfile
 conda-forge::natsort
-conda-forge::numpy<2
+conda-forge::numpy
 conda-forge::nxmx
 conda-forge::orderedset
 conda-forge::pillow>=5.4.1