diff --git a/doc/releases/changelog-dev.md b/doc/releases/changelog-dev.md
index 59b4527d52..0964469175 100644
--- a/doc/releases/changelog-dev.md
+++ b/doc/releases/changelog-dev.md
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 
 <h3>Breaking changes 💔</h3>
 
+* Dropped support for NumPy 1.x following its end-of-life. NumPy 2.0 or higher is now required.
+  [(#2407)](https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/catalyst/pull/2407)
+
 <h3>Deprecations 👋</h3>
 
 <h3>Bug fixes 🐛</h3>
@@ -55,4 +58,5 @@ Ali Asadi,
 Sengthai Heng,
 Jeffrey Kam,
 Mudit Pandey,
+Andrija Paurevic,
 Paul Haochen Wang.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index eabf9cc6b7..bd04a0eaf0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ known_third_party = ["diastatic-malt", "jax", "jaxlib", "numpy", "pennylane"]
 skips = ["B607"]
 
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=62", "wheel", "pybind11>=2.12.0", "numpy!=2.0.0", "nanobind", "cmake", "ninja"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=62", "wheel", "pybind11>=2.12.0", "numpy>2.0.0", "nanobind", "cmake", "ninja"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 44bfa62740..f78eaa815d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pip>=22.3
 # Build dependencies for non-Python components
 # Do not allow NumPy 2.0.0 due to a bug with their C API that blocks the usage of the Stable ABI;
 # this bug was fixed in 2.0.1 (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/26995)
-numpy!=2.0.0
+numpy>2.0.0
 # llvm requires nanobind 2.9 or higher
 nanobind>=2.9
 pybind11>=2.12.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 527c84612e..dd5f0032cf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ def parse_dep_versions():
     kokkos_dep,
     f"jax=={jax_version}",
     f"jaxlib=={jax_version}",
-    "numpy!=2.0.0",
+    "numpy>2.0.0",
     "scipy-openblas32>=0.3.26",  # symbol and library name
     "diastatic-malt>=2.15.2",
     "xdsl==0.56.1",