diff --git a/.github/workflows/win-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/win-tests.yml
index 122853097..b01ae36d5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/win-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/win-tests.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
         if: steps.cache-local.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade setuptools pip wheel 
-          pip install -U numpy cython scikit-build allensdk==0.16.3
+          pip install -U numpy cython scikit-build
           pip install -r tvb_framework/requirements.txt
           pip install --no-build-isolation tvb-gdist
 
diff --git a/tvb_build/docker/requirements_group b/tvb_build/docker/requirements_group
index 8949aebbd..3bc36c2b7 100644
--- a/tvb_build/docker/requirements_group
+++ b/tvb_build/docker/requirements_group
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jinja2
 nibabel>=4.0
 sqlalchemy
 alembic
-allensdk
+allensdk==0.16.3
 werkzeug
 gevent
 cherrypy
diff --git a/tvb_framework/requirements.txt b/tvb_framework/requirements.txt
index 3cb0bd30a..4d6de9067 100644
--- a/tvb_framework/requirements.txt
+++ b/tvb_framework/requirements.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jinja2
 nibabel>=4.0
 sqlalchemy
 alembic
-allensdk
+allensdk==0.16.3
 werkzeug
 gevent
 cherrypy