diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index ab7d9b26..31772a58 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - name: Prepare enviroment
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install pip==23.0.1
           python -m pip install wheel pytest pytest-cov nvidia-pyindex
           pip install -e "client/[test]"
           pip install -e "server/[tensorrt]"
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - name: Prepare enviroment
         run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install pip==23.0.1
           python -m pip install wheel pytest pytest-cov nvidia-pyindex
           pip install -e "client/[test]"
           pip install -e "server/[onnx]"
diff --git a/client/setup.py b/client/setup.py
index 6a15108c..3aae4c95 100644
--- a/client/setup.py
+++ b/client/setup.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     zip_safe=False,
     setup_requires=['setuptools>=18.0', 'wheel'],
-    install_requires=['jina>=3.12.0', 'docarray[common]>=0.19.0', 'packaging'],
+    install_requires=['jina>=3.12.0', 'docarray[common]>=0.19.0,<0.30.0', 'packaging'],
     extras_require={
         'test': [
             'pytest',
diff --git a/server/setup.py b/server/setup.py
index b59f8b6a..ad81a0bc 100644
--- a/server/setup.py
+++ b/server/setup.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
         'regex',
         'torchvision<=0.13.0' if sys.version_info <= (3, 7, 2) else 'torchvision',
         'jina>=3.12.0',
+        'docarray<0.30.0',
         'prometheus-client',
         'open_clip_torch>=2.8.0',
     ],