pin numpy<2.5 due to bug with image metadata loading

Author: torzdf

requirements/_requirements_base.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ packaging>=26.0
 tqdm>=4.67
 psutil>=7.2.0
 numexpr>=2.14.0
-numpy>=2.4.0
+# TODO issue with numpy 2.5.x loading alignments into DataclassDict.from_dict
+numpy>=2.4.0,<2.5.0
 opencv-python>=4.13.0
 pillow>=12.2.0
 scikit-learn>=1.8.0