diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 929fa4e..3adb6fb 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ENV PATH=$PATH:/root/miniconda3/bin:/workspace/bin
 # Installing numpy and pybind11 beforehand because sometimes they don't install so well from requirements.txt
 RUN pip install --upgrade pip
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -U numpy pybind11
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -U dask
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -U dask<=2021.03.1
 
 # Needed for dask
 RUN conda install -c conda-forge 'fsspec>=0.3.3'
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index c006218..879be8a 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.7.6
+0.7.7
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c5b18a2..0230b07 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ sparse
 networkx
 hnswlib
 numba
-dask
+dask<=2021.03.1
 pandas
 zarr
 h5py