diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 29147fb0f..99aa9645f 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -5837,4 +5837,4 @@ fractal-tasks = ["Pillow", "cellpose", "imageio-ffmpeg", "napari-segment-blobs-a
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "24756ef7e96ffae86c4ae1673539723b0cb71b32431bc52db4fcc9920a298992"
+content-hash = "3dfa737e33b738c1e415dfe6a84bae686d20d01782b7b2b24bbfef78431f0c16"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 515b9bbf7..ef4d8a4d9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ documentation = "https://fractal-tasks-core.readthedocs.io"
 # Required dependencies
 python = "^3.9"
 dask = ">=2023.1.0"
-fsspec = "<=2023.6"
+fsspec = "!=2023.9.0"
 zarr = ">=2.13.6,<3"
 numpy = "<2"
 pandas = ">=1.2.0,<2"