diff --git a/docs/releases.rst b/docs/releases.rst
index ee1ae402..8e29154e 100644
--- a/docs/releases.rst
+++ b/docs/releases.rst
@@ -34,12 +34,15 @@ New Features
 Breaking changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+- Requires Zarr 3.0 (for :pull:`182`).
+  By `Gustavo Hidalgo <https://github.com/ghidalgo3>`_.
 - Serialize valid ZarrV3 metadata and require full compressor numcodec config (for :pull:`193`)
   By `Gustavo Hidalgo <https://github.com/ghidalgo3>`_.
 - VirtualiZarr's `ZArray`, `ChunkEntry`, and `Codec` no longer subclass
   `pydantic.BaseModel` (:pull:`210`)
 - `ZArray`'s `__init__` signature has changed to match `zarr.Array`'s (:pull:`210`)
 
+
 Deprecations
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d216b269..48926937 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "numpy>=2.0.0",
     "packaging",
     "universal-pathlib",
+    "zarr>=3.0.0a0"
     "numcodecs",
     "ujson",
 ]