diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 91f8a7cec3..5c9b12b3c2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@
     "raven[flask]>=5.10,<7.0",
     "requests>=2.7.0,<3.0",
     "boto3>=1.26,<2.0",
-    "websockets==10.3",
-    "mongolock>=1.3.4,<1.4",
+    "websockets>=10.3,<10.4",
     "PyYAML>=6.0.1",
     "lxml>=4,<4.7",
     "python-twitter==3.5",
@@ -70,6 +69,7 @@
     "itsdangerous>=1.1,<2.0",
     "pymemcache>=4.0,<4.1",
     "xmlsec==1.3.13",  # pin xmlsec due to https://github.com/xmlsec/python-xmlsec/issues/314
+    "mongolock @ git+https://github.com/superdesk/mongolock.git@v1",
 ]
 
 package_data = {