diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 092afa15df..511a76e6fa 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.17.0
+1.17.1
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d627545891..11e6b6ff86 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "pandas",
   "rank_bm25",
   "scikit-learn>=1.0.0", # TF-IDF, SklearnQueryClassifier and metrics
-  "generalimport", # Optional imports
+  "generalimport==0.3.1", # Optional imports
 
   # Utils
   "dill",  # pickle extension for (de-)serialization