diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 351e509468acd027afff179bf515f24cad6b1503..42fe8d74b590100ade201550ef3bcd083df4e954 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Section: comm
 Architecture: all
 Depends:
  python3-requests,
- python3-websockets,
+ python3-websockets (>= 8.0),
  briar-headless,
  ${misc:Depends},
  ${python3:Depends}