diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20231006-093107.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20231006-093107.yaml
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+kind: Under the Hood
+body: Pin types-requests<2.31.0 in `dev-requirements.txt`
+time: 2023-10-06T09:31:07.591896-05:00
+custom:
+  Author: emmyoop
+  Issue: "8789"
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 64f37aa30ce..3f0aba49444 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ types-mock
 types-protobuf
 types-python-dateutil
 types-pytz
-types-requests
+types-requests<2.31.0 # types-requests 2.31.0.8 requires urllib3>=2, but we pin urllib3 ~= 1.0 because of openssl requirement for requests
 types-setuptools
 wheel
 mocker