diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 53603b85914303a353e9c49772bfed307d467f16..a1884378f11cc4c4501ec9d3831f207369c091c2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
[](https://git-ce.rwth-aachen.de/wzl-mq-ms/forschung-lehre/lava/unified-device-interface/python/commits/master)
# Python Unified Device Interface
-Current stable version: 8.2.4
+Current stable version: 8.2.5
## Installation
1. Install the WZL-UDI package via pip
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
## Recent changes
+**8.2.5** - 2023-04-17
+ - relaxed required versions of dependencies to avoid conflicts
+
**8.2.4** - 2023-04-13
- updated dependency, so that wzl-udi is also compatible with Python 3.11
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ee214717e14aad8fa12a2e462368115e3052b4eb..b55a66628829589c4f0208d470c07172d7ffbd8e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
aiohttp==3.8.4
Deprecated==1.2.13
jinja2==3.0.3
-nest-asyncio==1.4.3
+nest-asyncio==1.5.6
pytest==7.1.1
sphinx==3.5.2
sphinx-rtd-theme==1.0.0
strict-rfc3339==0.7
-wzl-mqtt==2.5.1
\ No newline at end of file
+wzl-mqtt~=2.5.3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b4db1e3ec34357389520c236b13b54258c164935..66ec6b6504b66cf525c9b0e962a47b1de1a8c1c3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
long_description = fh.read()
setup(name='wzl-udi',
- version='8.2.4',
+ version='8.2.5',
url='https://git-ce.rwth-aachen.de/wzl-mq-public/soil/python',
project_urls={
"Bug Tracker": "https://git-ce.rwth-aachen.de/wzl-mq-public/soil/python/-/issues",
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ setup(name='wzl-udi',
"Operating System :: OS Independent",
],
install_requires=['aiohttp~=3.8.4',
- 'Deprecated==1.2.13',
- 'nest-asyncio==1.5.6',
+ 'Deprecated~=1.2.13',
+ 'nest-asyncio~=1.5.6',
'strict-rfc3339==0.7',
- 'wzl-mqtt==2.5.1'
+ 'wzl-mqtt~=2.5.3'
],
zip_safe=False)