diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index b825b40f0..37f278646 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ number of the code change for that issue.  These PRs can be viewed at:
 
     https://github.com/spacetelescope/drizzlepac/pulls
 
+3.7.0.1 (13-Jun-2024)
+=====================
+
+- build wheels with Numpy 2.0 release candidate ahead of Numpy 2.0 release [#1806]
 
 3.7.0 (02-Apr-2024) Infrastructure Build
 ===========================================
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index caa92727e..5e9804bb9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ dependencies = [
     'tables',
     'typing_extensions>4.0',
     'markupsafe<=2.0.1',
+    "numpy<2.0",
 ]
 dynamic = ['version']
 
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ runmultihap = 'drizzlepac.runmultihap:main'
 requires = ["setuptools>=61",
             "setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4",
             "wheel",
-            "numpy>=1.18, <2.0",
+            "numpy>=2.0.0rc2",
             "astropy>=5.0.4",
             "markupsafe<=2.0.1"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"