diff --git a/soda/core/setup.py b/soda/core/setup.py
index d81709f1d..0505153ba 100644
--- a/soda/core/setup.py
+++ b/soda/core/setup.py
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
     "ruamel.yaml>=0.17.0,<0.18.0",
     "requests~=2.30",
     "antlr4-python3-runtime~=4.11.1",
-    "opentelemetry-api>=1.16.0,<1.23.0",  # 1.23.0 removes Python 3.7 support
-    "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http>=1.16.0,<1.23.0",
+    "opentelemetry-api~=1.16.0,<2.0.0",
+    "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http>=1.16.0,<2.0.0",
     "sqlparse~=0.4",
     "inflect~=7.0",
     "pydantic>=2.0.0,<3.0.0",