diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 77477dd46e..b379a47187 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Please follow the established format:
 - Remove demo data source and update feature hints. (#1804)
 - Add markdown support for backticks in the pop-up reminder. (#1826)
 - Fix posix path conversion on Windows in DatasetStatsHook. (#1843)
+- Add `pydantic` pin to requirements. (#1861)
 
 # Release 8.0.1 
 
diff --git a/package/requirements.txt b/package/requirements.txt
index c8a6a625f6..f40d3278de 100644
--- a/package/requirements.txt
+++ b/package/requirements.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ orjson~=3.9
 packaging~=23.0
 pandas>=1.3
 plotly>=4.0
+pydantic>=2.0.0
 secure>=0.3.0
 sqlalchemy>=1.4, <3
 strawberry-graphql>=0.192.0, <1.0