diff --git a/conda/recipes/cucim/meta.yaml b/conda/recipes/cucim/meta.yaml
index efd2b5085..8416f83cc 100644
--- a/conda/recipes/cucim/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/recipes/cucim/meta.yaml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ requirements:
     - libcucim {{ version }}.*
     - click
     - cupy >=9,<11.0.0a0
-    - numpy 1.17
+    - numpy 1.18
     - scipy
     - scikit-image 0.18.1
   run: