diff --git a/requirements/default.txt b/requirements/default.txt
index dccb6008..c9071fc0 100644
--- a/requirements/default.txt
+++ b/requirements/default.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,3 @@ typing_extensions==4.12.1; python_version<"3.10"
 amqp>=5.1.1,<6.0.0
 vine
 backports.zoneinfo[tzdata]>=0.2.1; python_version < '3.9'
-# due to this bug https://github.com/docker/docker-py/issues/3256
-# we need to hard-code the version of requests
-requests<2.32.0