diff --git a/framework_tvb/setup.py b/framework_tvb/setup.py
index ed04564cf7..0a6f1a4bfc 100644
--- a/framework_tvb/setup.py
+++ b/framework_tvb/setup.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 TVB_TEAM = "Mihai Andrei, Lia Domide, Stuart Knock, Bogdan Neacsa, Paula Popa, Paula Sansz Leon, Marmaduke Woodman"
 
 TVB_INSTALL_REQUIREMENTS = ["allensdk", "cherrypy", "cryptography", "flask", "flask-restplus", "formencode",
-                            "gevent", "h5py", "Jinja2", "nibabel", "numpy", "pandas", "Pillow",
+                            "gevent", "h5py<3", "Jinja2", "nibabel", "numpy", "pandas", "Pillow",
                             "psutil", "pyAesCrypt", "python-keycloak", "requests", "scikit-learn",
                             "scipy", "simplejson", "six", "sqlalchemy", "sqlalchemy-migrate",
                             "tvb-data", "tvb-gdist", "tvb-library", "werkzeug"]