diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 679d95037..79acbf691 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 ### Changed
 - changed default value of enablepricing flag to True
 - Speed up np.ndarray(..., dtype=np.float64) @ MatrixExpr
+- Minimum numpy version increased from 1.16.0 to 1.19.0
 ### Removed
 
 ## 6.0.0 - 2025.xx.yy
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d990f8d50..9ac13da7f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ description = "Python interface and modeling environment for SCIP"
 authors = [
     {name = "Zuse Institute Berlin", email = "scip@zib.de"},
 ]
-dependencies = ['numpy >=1.16.0']
+dependencies = ['numpy >=1.19.0']
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = {text = "MIT License"}