diff --git a/news/20260408084405.bugfix b/news/20260408084405.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6e88cccd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/20260408084405.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Dependency upgrade: semver-gte-2.13-and-lt-3.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d0495f4c..bd4d603b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
         # FIXME change when https://github.com/pdoc3/pdoc/issues/299 is fixed
         "pdoc3==0.10.0",
         "toml",
-        "semver~=2.13.0",
+        "semver~=3.0.4",
         "python-dotenv",
         "twine",
         "boto3",