diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 87d0c6e..477dbc3 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     "description": "Abstraction layer for constructing arbitrary HTML tags and documents in PHP",
     "type": "library",
     "require": {
-        "php": ">=8.1",
+        "php": "~8.1",
         "myclabs/deep-copy": "^1"
     },
     "license": "MIT",