diff --git a/requirements/release.txt b/requirements/release.txt
index 8c11e657bd..18eb390dfa 100644
--- a/requirements/release.txt
+++ b/requirements/release.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ipywidgets==8.1.5
 jupyterlab==4.2.5
 ipython_genutils==0.2.0
 jinja2==3.1.4
-lxml_html_clean==0.1.1
+lxml_html_clean==0.4.0
 m2r2==0.3.2
 nbsphinx==0.8.7
 numpydoc==1.1.0