diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8413fb26..8a2e94f6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
 ## Unreleased
+* naive removal of upper scipy and numpy limit [MartinBubel]
+
 * fix pickle and deep copy for classification models inheriting from EP #1108 [olamarre]
 
 * update prior `__new__` methods #1098 [MartinBubel]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0c74b1fe..4128a956 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -140,14 +140,14 @@ except ModuleNotFoundError:
     ext_mods = []
 
 install_requirements = [
-    "numpy>=1.7,<2.0.0",
+    "numpy>=1.7",
     "six",
     "paramz>=0.9.6",
     "cython>=0.29",
 ]
 # 'some-pkg @ git+ssh://git@github.com/someorgname/pkg-repo-name@v1.1#egg=some-pkg',
 matplotlib_version = "matplotlib==3.3.4"
-install_requirements += ["scipy>=1.3.0,<=1.12.0"]
+install_requirements += ["scipy>=1.3.0"]  # ,<=1.12.0
 
 setup(
     name="GPy",