diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 20a200b37..58527d27d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "backports-zstd; python_version < '3.14'", # for python < 3.14.
   "jsonargparse>=4.47.0",
   "PyYAML>=6.0.2",  # we need to register our types with yaml, jsonargparse uses yaml for config files
-  "blake3 >= 1.0; sys_platform != 'win32'",
-  "blake3 >= 1.0,!=1.0.9; sys_platform == 'win32'",  # 1.0.9 does not build on windows/msys2/mingw
+  "blake3 >= 1.0.10",
   "tzdata; sys_platform == 'win32'",  # zoneinfo has no system tz database on Windows (date: named zones)
   # same on haiku (sys.platform is 'haiku1' on pythons older than 3.13)
   "tzdata; sys_platform == 'haiku' or sys_platform == 'haiku1'",