diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 044dff0860..b38fb525a7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "django-statici18n==2.6.*",
   "djangorestframework==3.15.*",
   "dnspython==2.7.*",
-  "drf_ujson2==1.7.*",
+  "drf_ujson2==1.8.*",
   "geoip2==4.*",
   "importlib_metadata==8.*",  # Polyfill, we can probably drop this once we require Python 3.10+
   "isoweek",