diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index c082a85..faa04f1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 0.7.4
  - enh: add user preference for default recipe
+ - setup: bump version of dclab to 0.62.1
 0.7.3
  - fix: segmentation fault due to mixing threading.Thread with PyQt6
  - enh: introduce logging and make logging Path available to the user
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 58e676a..f4d48e8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ classifiers = [
 license = {text = "GPL v3"}
 dependencies = [
     "click>=8",
-    "dclab>=0.60.0",
+    "dclab>=0.62.1",
     "h5py>=3.8.0",
     "hdf5plugin",  # compression
     "numpy>=1.21",  # CVE-2021-33430