diff --git a/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt b/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt
index 0975656c75bf4..1f5b60a8d7ff4 100644
--- a/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt
+++ b/docs/spelling_wordlist.txt
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ cloudant
 cloudbuild
 CloudBuildClient
 cloudml
+cloudpickle
 cloudsqldatabehook
 CloudTasksClient
 Cloudwatch
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 4ce61f665c644..9994eff740658 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ install_requires =
     attrs>=22.1.0
     blinker
     cattrs>=22.1.0
+    cloudpickle>=2.0.0
     # Colorlog 6.x merges TTYColoredFormatter into ColoredFormatter, breaking backwards compatibility with 4.x
     # Update CustomTTYColoredFormatter to remove
     colorlog>=4.0.2, <5.0
@@ -83,7 +84,6 @@ install_requires =
     cryptography>=0.9.3
     deprecated>=1.2.13
     dill>=0.2.2
-    cloudpickle>=2.0.0
     # Flask 2.3 is scheduled to introduce a number of deprecation removals - some of them might be breaking
     # for our dependencies - notably `_app_ctx_stack` and `_request_ctx_stack` removals.
     # We should remove the limitation after 2.3 is released and our dependencies are updated to handle it
diff --git a/tests/decorators/test_external_python.py b/tests/decorators/test_external_python.py
index d6011850dc5f4..f4b1a4e0aa610 100644
--- a/tests/decorators/test_external_python.py
+++ b/tests/decorators/test_external_python.py
@@ -51,20 +51,20 @@ def venv_python():
 
 
 @pytest.fixture()
-def venv_python_with_dill():
+def venv_python_with_cloudpickle():
     with TemporaryDirectory() as d:
         venv.create(d, with_pip=True)
         python_path = Path(d) / "bin" / "python"
-        subprocess.call([python_path, "-m", "pip", "install", "dill"])
+        subprocess.call([python_path, "-m", "pip", "install", "cloudpickle"])
         yield python_path
 
 
 class TestExternalPythonDecorator:
-    def test_with_dill_works(self, dag_maker, venv_python_with_dill):
-        @task.external_python(python=venv_python_with_dill, use_cloudpickle=True)
+    def test_with_cloudpickle_works(self, dag_maker, venv_python_with_cloudpickle):
+        @task.external_python(python=venv_python_with_cloudpickle, use_cloudpickle=True)
         def f():
             """Import cloudpickle to double-check it is installed ."""
-            import cloudpickle # noqa: F401
+            import cloudpickle  # noqa: F401
 
         with dag_maker():
             ret = f()