diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4dd030379..d2740ac0b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ def get_setup_version(reponame):
     'numba >=0.51.0',
     'datashader >=0.6.5',
     'spatialpandas >=0.4.3',
+    'hdf5 ==1.14.0',
 ]
 
 # Run the example tests by installing examples_tests together with tests