diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2af4b0d..db31e67 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ dev = [
   "flake8-rst-docstrings>=0.3.0",
   "flake8>=6.1.0",
   "flit>=3.9.0",
-  "ipython<8.0", # this needed when testing see #1005
+  "ipython",
   "isort==5.13.2",
   "mypy",
   "nbval",