diff --git a/crawl4ai/__init__.py b/crawl4ai/__init__.py
index 92675315..26606bc5 100644
--- a/crawl4ai/__init__.py
+++ b/crawl4ai/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from .async_webcrawler import AsyncWebCrawler
 from .models import CrawlResult
 
-__version__ = "0.3.2"
+__version__ = "0.3.3"
 
 __all__ = [
     "AsyncWebCrawler",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7cb7903c..3394429e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ aiosqlite==0.20.0
 html2text==2024.2.26
 lxml==5.3.0
 litellm==1.48.0
-numpy==2.1.1
+numpy>=1.26.0,<2.1.1
 pillow==10.4.0
 playwright==1.47.0
 python-dotenv==1.0.1