diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 771de13f1..eff9c16e3 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ Contributors:
     * Jay Knight (jay-knight)
     * fbdb
     * Charbel Jacquin (charbeljc)
+    * Charalampos Stratakis
 
 Creator:
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c3268cd8c..f70af1762 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ urls = { Homepage = "https://pgcli.com" }
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dependencies = [
     "pgspecial>=2.0.0",
-    "click >= 4.1,<8.1.8",
+    "click >= 8.3.1",
     "Pygments>=2.0",       # Pygments has to be Capitalcased.
     # We still need to use pt-2 unless pt-3 released on Fedora32
     # see: https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/pull/1197