diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ad8346c8..1ed56b95 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ shapely>=2.0.0
 spyndex>=0.3.0
 
 # SERTIT libs
-sertit[full]>1.43.4
+sertit[full]==1.44.0rc1
 
 # Optimizations
 dask[complete]>=2024.5.1  # numpy >= 2
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4a322ed3..4cabcbcf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
         "rioxarray>=0.10.0",
         "odc-geo>=0.4.6",
         "geopandas>=0.14.4",
-        "sertit[full]>1.43.4",
+        "sertit[full]==1.44.0rc1",
         "spyndex>=0.3.0",
         "pyresample",
         "zarr",