diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 8eceb7e1..01b39371 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1627,24 +1627,24 @@ test = ["jupyterlab (<4)", "pytest", "pytest-playwright", "solara[pytest]"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ipywidgets"
-version = "8.0.4"
+version = "8.1.2"
 description = "Jupyter interactive widgets"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
-    {file = "ipywidgets-8.0.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:ebb195e743b16c3947fe8827190fb87b4d00979c0fbf685afe4d2c4927059fa1"},
-    {file = "ipywidgets-8.0.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:c0005a77a47d77889cafed892b58e33b4a2a96712154404c6548ec22272811ea"},
+    {file = "ipywidgets-8.1.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:bbe43850d79fb5e906b14801d6c01402857996864d1e5b6fa62dd2ee35559f60"},
+    {file = "ipywidgets-8.1.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d0b9b41e49bae926a866e613a39b0f0097745d2b9f1f3dd406641b4a57ec42c9"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-ipykernel = ">=4.5.1"
+comm = ">=0.1.3"
 ipython = ">=6.1.0"
-jupyterlab-widgets = ">=3.0,<4.0"
+jupyterlab-widgets = ">=3.0.10,<3.1.0"
 traitlets = ">=4.3.1"
-widgetsnbextension = ">=4.0,<5.0"
+widgetsnbextension = ">=4.0.10,<4.1.0"
 
 [package.extras]
-test = ["jsonschema", "pytest (>=3.6.0)", "pytest-cov", "pytz"]
+test = ["ipykernel", "jsonschema", "pytest (>=3.6.0)", "pytest-cov", "pytz"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "isoduration"
@@ -5626,4 +5626,4 @@ testing = ["big-O", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more-itertools", "p
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8,<3.12"
-content-hash = "51621b2177b89ced5294bb1e4565f573d34800d0f3302ba32d50016600e580e5"
+content-hash = "2d0fc06b1f42c31f7cabc0beddd0f47f77730586ac38251392eda82bd4c43586"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b6314c25..c8364c8c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ classifiers = [
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = ">=3.8,<3.12"
-ipywidgets = ">=8.0.0,<8.0.5"
+ipywidgets = "^8.1.2"
 matplotlib = "^3.7.3"
 numpy = ">=1.24.4,<1.25.0"
 pandas = "^1.5.3"