diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index b566bf390..677a97779 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ install_requires =
     h5py>=2.10; python_version<'3.11'
     xlrd>=1.2
     openpyxl>=3.0
-    mpl-scatter-density>=0.7
+    mpl-scatter-density>=0.8
     importlib_resources>=1.3; python_version<'3.9'
     importlib_metadata>=3.6; python_version<'3.10'
     shapely>=2.0