diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 37bb0c4fa..5b3534de4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ supafunc==0.2.3   # Supabase functions calls (required by supabase and enforced
 postgrest==0.10.8 # Supabase posgres calls (required by supabase and enforced to allow direct import)
 realtime==1.0.0   # Supabase realtime lib (required by supabase and enforced to allow direct import)
 
+# async http requests
+# avoid v3.10.0 as it is failing CI (<class 'RuntimeError'>: aiodns needs a SelectorEventLoop on Windows. See more: https://github.com/saghul/aiodns/issues/86)
+aiohttp==3.9.5
+
 # Experimental to prevent httpx.PoolTimeout
 httpcore==0.17.3  # to up to at least 1.0.2 (prevent default version when installing httpx which creates httpx.PoolTimeout)
 anyio==4.0.0      #