diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index ebb222d..9e4f316 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ PrecompileTools = "1"
 StatsAPI = "1.6"
 TestItemRunner = "0.2"
 TestItems = "0.1"
-VectorizedKmers = "0"
+VectorizedKmers = "0.8"
 julia = "1"
 
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