diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index e5247e7..b3764c2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: Tests
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [ main ]
+    branches: [ main, ci-test-macos ]
   pull_request:
 
 jobs:
@@ -11,15 +11,19 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
         python: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+        include:
+          - os: macos-latest
+            python: '3.10'  
+      fail-fast: false       
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python }}
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-    - uses: actions/cache@v3
+    - uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
         path: ~/.cache/pip
         key: ${{ runner.os }}-pip-${{ hashFiles('**/pyproject.toml') }}
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f5d3721..103a90f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "cleanco>=2.2",
   # It is important to fix the version of xgboost for reproducible classification scores
   "xgboost",
+  "xgboost==2.0.3; sys_platform=='darwin'", # to avoid having to install libomp.dylib for later versions of xgboost
   "sparse-dot-topn>=1.1.1",
   "joblib",
   "pyarrow>=6.0.1", # seems to work with spark 3.1.2 - 3.3.1