diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 218035926..df0ad6e13 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ opentelemetry-instrumentation-django==0.37b0
 opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg2==0.37b0
 opentelemetry-sdk==1.16.0
 Pillow==10.3.0
+pilkit>=3.0 # dependency of django-imagekit, 2.0 is incompatible with Pillow>=10
 protobuf==3.20.*
 psycopg2==2.9.5
 pycryptodome==3.19.1