diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8a9d580..f9af701 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "diskcache~=5.4",
     "fasteners~=0.17.3",
     "h5py~=3.6",
-    "importlib-metadata~=4.0",
+    "importlib-metadata>=4,<7",
     "ir-datasets~=0.4",
     "joblib~=1.0",
     "lz4~=4.0",