diff --git a/packages/objectstore/setup.cfg b/packages/objectstore/setup.cfg
index 69fc1352966..7117a92a5ce 100644
--- a/packages/objectstore/setup.cfg
+++ b/packages/objectstore/setup.cfg
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ version = 23.1.dev0
 include_package_data = True
 install_requires =
     galaxy-util
-    pydantic<2
+    pydantic>=2
     PyYAML
 packages = find:
 python_requires = >=3.7
 
 [options.packages.find]
 exclude =
-    tests*
\ No newline at end of file
+    tests*
diff --git a/packages/schema/setup.cfg b/packages/schema/setup.cfg
index eec61655991..b80052e2ad4 100644
--- a/packages/schema/setup.cfg
+++ b/packages/schema/setup.cfg
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ version = 23.1.0.dev0
 include_package_data = True
 install_requires =
     galaxy-util
-    pydantic[email]<2
+    pydantic[email]>=2
 packages = find:
 python_requires = >=3.8
 
diff --git a/packages/tool_util/setup.cfg b/packages/tool_util/setup.cfg
index 354417845ca..f382f1a4167 100644
--- a/packages/tool_util/setup.cfg
+++ b/packages/tool_util/setup.cfg
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ install_requires =
     lxml!=4.2.2
     MarkupSafe
     packaging
-    pydantic<2
+    pydantic>=2
     PyYAML
     requests
     sortedcontainers
diff --git a/packages/web_apps/setup.cfg b/packages/web_apps/setup.cfg
index a979167ac63..8a40f787c51 100644
--- a/packages/web_apps/setup.cfg
+++ b/packages/web_apps/setup.cfg
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ install_requires =
     MarkupSafe
     mercurial
     Paste
-    pydantic<2
+    pydantic>=2
     PyJWT
     python-dateutil
     python-multipart  # required to support form parsing in FastAPI/Starlette