diff --git a/pixi.toml b/pixi.toml
index c53e94f9b..8b5abbd94 100644
--- a/pixi.toml
+++ b/pixi.toml
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ test-benchmark = 'pytest datashader/tests --benchmark'
 
 [feature.test.dependencies]
 dask-core = "*"
-dask-expr = "*"
+dask-expr = "<2"
 dask-geopandas = "*"
 geodatasets = "*"
 geopandas-base = "*"