diff --git a/cuda_core/pyproject.toml b/cuda_core/pyproject.toml
index 9b3e5a37c5..2710818816 100644
--- a/cuda_core/pyproject.toml
+++ b/cuda_core/pyproject.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ classifiers = [
     "Environment :: GPU :: NVIDIA CUDA :: 13",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "cuda-pathfinder >=1.4.2",
+    # TODO: bump to >=1.4.2 once cuda-pathfinder 1.4.2 is released.
+    "cuda-pathfinder >=1.4.1",
     "numpy",
 ]