diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 159b874..868e765 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+Version 0.5.0rc2
+------------
+- For better compatibility with `scanpy`, lower bounds on dependencies have been relaxed.
+
 Version 0.5.0rc1
 ------------
 This version improves compatibility with `scanpy`:
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index e60ecfa..95cee57 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 2.3.2 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 2.3.4 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "accessible-pygments"
@@ -1937,14 +1937,14 @@ test = ["pytest", "pytest-cov", "scipy"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pdex"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.2.1"
 description = "Parallel differential expression for single-cell perturbation sequencing"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.11"
 groups = ["dev"]
 files = [
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+    {file = "pdex-0.2.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f2c891288d30ef304ec1bf266577ef6ac3dc1e5ae122240b5f49ee9902514b8f"},
+    {file = "pdex-0.2.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:fc6778ee71c5cbf871679a38a98980442433b6581ce114dec86d61145496504f"},
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 [package.dependencies]
@@ -2113,18 +2113,18 @@ testing = ["coverage", "pytest", "pytest-benchmark"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "polars"
-version = "1.39.0"
+version = "1.39.3"
 description = "Blazingly fast DataFrame library"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.10"
 groups = ["dev"]
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+    {file = "polars-1.39.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:c2b955ccc0a08a2bc9259785decf3d5c007b489b523bf2390cf21cec2bb82a56"},
+    {file = "polars-1.39.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2e016c7f3e8d14fa777ef86fe0477cec6c67023a20ba4c94d6e8431eefe4a63c"},
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 [package.dependencies]
-polars-runtime-32 = "1.39.0"
+polars-runtime-32 = "1.39.3"
 
 [package.extras]
 adbc = ["adbc-driver-manager[dbapi]", "adbc-driver-sqlite[dbapi]"]
@@ -2147,8 +2147,8 @@ plot = ["altair (>=5.4.0)"]
 polars-cloud = ["polars_cloud (>=0.4.0)"]
 pyarrow = ["pyarrow (>=7.0.0)"]
 pydantic = ["pydantic"]
-rt64 = ["polars-runtime-64 (==1.39.0)"]
-rtcompat = ["polars-runtime-compat (==1.39.0)"]
+rt64 = ["polars-runtime-64 (==1.39.3)"]
+rtcompat = ["polars-runtime-compat (==1.39.3)"]
 sqlalchemy = ["polars[pandas]", "sqlalchemy"]
 style = ["great-tables (>=0.8.0)"]
 timezone = ["tzdata ; platform_system == \"Windows\""]
@@ -2157,21 +2157,21 @@ xlsxwriter = ["xlsxwriter"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-runtime-32"
-version = "1.39.0"
+version = "1.39.3"
 description = "Blazingly fast DataFrame library"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.10"
 groups = ["dev"]
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 [[package]]
@@ -3609,4 +3609,4 @@ type = ["pytest-mypy"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = ">=3.11,<4.0"
-content-hash = "5e509c80c9dbcc5d4253f92d6087ce3c2c5f9285e7a8847e2d2918cc772c6757"
+content-hash = "b2a46ccb9e36637b766468fd67483cbf567bff3dabe37e9a70ba164d8a2c8713"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a2632c2..e9a0dd9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "illico"
-version = "0.5.0rc1"
+version = "0.5.0rc2"
 description = "Fast asymptotic mannwhitney-u test"
 authors = [
     {name = "remydubois",email = "remydubois14@gmail.com"}
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11,<4.0"
 dependencies = [
     "anndata (>=0.11)",
-    "numba (>=0.63.1)",
-    "pandas (>=2.3.3,<3.0.0)",
-    "scipy (>=1.16.3,<2.0.0)",
+    "numba (>=0.60)",
+    "pandas (>=2.2.2)",
+    "scipy (>=1.13,<2.0.0)",
     "tqdm (>=4.67.1,<5.0.0)",
     "joblib (>=1.5.3,<2.0.0)",
     "loguru (>=0.7.3,<0.8.0)",
diff --git a/tests/test_asymptotic_wilcoxon.py b/tests/test_asymptotic_wilcoxon.py
index 92d3615..f09a4e1 100644
--- a/tests/test_asymptotic_wilcoxon.py
+++ b/tests/test_asymptotic_wilcoxon.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 import pytest
 import scanpy as sc
 from numba import set_num_threads
-from pdex import pdex
 from scipy import sparse as py_sparse
 from scipy.stats import mannwhitneyu
 
@@ -402,6 +401,7 @@ def run():
         with warnings.catch_warnings():
             warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
             if method == "pdex":
+                import pdex
                 mode = "ref" if test == "ovo" else "all"
                 pdex(
                     data,