diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 48c02c49..8a581695 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ requires = [
     "setuptools-scm>=8",
     "packaging",
     # same as scikit-learn
-    "Cython>=3.0.8",
+    "Cython>=3.0.10",
     # building against numpy 2.x is compatible with numpy 1.x
     "numpy>=2.0.0rc2",