diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 97413bf8b..b1a419255 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ dependencies = [
     "SQLAlchemy",
     "gguf",
     "trimesh",
+    # doesn't support linux correctly yet
+    "stringzilla<4.2.0",
 ]
 
 [build-system]