diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ed8f9cb93a85..ec98c6f49ef2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ fs = "*"
 future = "*"
 galaxy_sequence_utils = "*"
 graphene-sqlalchemy = "3.0.0b3"  # need a beta release to be compat. with starlette plugin
-gravity = ">=1.0"
+gravity = ">=1.0.4"
 gunicorn = "*"
 gxformat2 = "*"
 h5grove = ">=1.2.1"