diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 66c960d6f..0d67b694f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     install_requires=[
         "Jinja2~=2.10", "PyYAML~=5.1", "attrs>=19.3,<21.0", "dill~=0.3",
         "pathos~=0.2", "parse~=1.14", "plumbum~=1.6", "psutil~=5.6",
-        "psycopg2-binary~=2.8", "pygit2>=1.2.1,<1.6.0", "pygtrie~=2.3",
+        "psycopg2-binary~=2.8", "pygit2>=1.2.1,<1.7.0", "pygtrie~=2.3",
         "pyparsing~=2.4", "rich>=6.1,<10.0", "sqlalchemy-migrate~=0.13",
         "typing-extensions~=3.7.4.3", "virtualenv>=16.7,<21.0"
     ],