diff --git a/projects/github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/package.yml b/projects/github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/package.yml
index 163d1411b6..d9ba75cdd5 100644
--- a/projects/github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/package.yml
+++ b/projects/github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/package.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ dependencies:
     gnome.org/libxml2: ~2.12
     gnome.org/libxslt: ^1
     littlecms.com: ^2
-    github.com/strukturag/libheif: ^1
+    github.com/strukturag/libheif: ~1.18
 
 build:
   dependencies: