diff --git a/requirements/requirements-avro.txt b/requirements/requirements-avro.txt
index ccb70d0c4..b7653e998 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-avro.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-avro.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-fastavro < 1.8.0; python_version == "3.7"
+fastavro <1.10.1; python_version == "3.7"
 fastavro < 2; python_version > "3.7"
 requests
 avro>=1.11.1,<2
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diff --git a/requirements/requirements-examples.txt b/requirements/requirements-examples.txt
index 35ce13516..3567fb8f0 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-examples.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-examples.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ attrs
 cachetools
 httpx
 
-fastavro < 1.8.0; python_version == "3.7"
+fastavro <1.10.1; python_version == "3.7"
 fastavro < 2; python_version > "3.7"
 requests
 avro>=1.11.1,<2