diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2c0714bc..ab906e80 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -116,6 +116,6 @@
         'webdataset',  # for reading webdataset files
         'huggingface_hub',  # login may be required
         'setuptools',  # no longer pinned
-        'galaxy-datasets>=0.0.19'  # for dataset loading in both TF and Torch (see github/mwalmsley/galaxy-datasets)
+        'galaxy-datasets>=0.0.21'  # for dataset loading in both TF and Torch (see github/mwalmsley/galaxy-datasets)
     ]
 )