diff --git a/packages/app/requirements.txt b/packages/app/requirements.txt
index 3657faea9d9..7468b5a2c04 100644
--- a/packages/app/requirements.txt
+++ b/packages/app/requirements.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Mako
 Markdown
 paramiko!=2.9.0,!=2.9.1
 pulsar-galaxy-lib>=0.14.13
+pydantic
 pykwalify
 refgenconf>=0.12.0
 sqlitedict
diff --git a/packages/web_framework/requirements.txt b/packages/web_framework/requirements.txt
index 2aabc3e555b..c60ad2b07fc 100644
--- a/packages/web_framework/requirements.txt
+++ b/packages/web_framework/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ galaxy-util
 galaxy-web-stack
 MarkupSafe
 paste
-pydantic<1.8
+pydantic
 requests
 Routes
 SQLAlchemy>=1.4.25,<2
diff --git a/packages/webapps/requirements.txt b/packages/webapps/requirements.txt
index 69563050325..0e18dbbfb16 100644
--- a/packages/webapps/requirements.txt
+++ b/packages/webapps/requirements.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Cheetah3
 fastapi>=0.68.2,!=0.69.0,!=0.70.0,!=0.70.1
 fastapi-utils
 Mako
+pydantic
 python-multipart  # required to support form parsing in FastAPI/Starlette
 starlette
 typing-extensions
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bbdea93d9ef..690beb6b130 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Paste = "*"
 psutil = "*"
 pulsar-galaxy-lib = ">=0.14.13"
 pycryptodome = "*"
+pydantic = "*"
 pykwalify = "*"
 pyparsing = "*"
 pysam = "*"