diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 243ab71..05a4b38 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
   "webcolors",
-  "paho-mqtt",
+  "paho-mqtt>=2.1.0",
   "mkdocstrings-python",
   "typing-extensions ; python_version<'3.13'",
 ]