diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5719f79f..0807c258 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ matplotlib
 numpy
 xarray
 dask>=2023.2.0
-intake[dataframe] # since intake 0.6.1 to_dask() doesn't work anymore without the [dataframe] specification due to a missing msgpack dependency
+intake[dataframe]<2.0.0 # since intake 0.6.1 to_dask() doesn't work anymore without the [dataframe] specification due to a missing msgpack dependency
 intake-xarray
 fsspec!=0.9.0 # 0.9.0 has a bug which leads to incomplete reads via HTTP
 requests