diff --git a/vmpooler.gemspec b/vmpooler.gemspec
index 35abb9c..8cbd5d8 100644
--- a/vmpooler.gemspec
+++ b/vmpooler.gemspec
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-concurrent_ruby', '~> 0.7.0'
   s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis', '~> 0.7.0'
   s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-sinatra', '~> 0.7.1'
-  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-resource_detectors', '~> 0.7.0'
+  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-resource_detectors', '>= 0.7', '< 0.9'
   s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-sdk', '~> 0.7.0'
   s.add_dependency 'pickup', '~> 0.0.11'
   s.add_dependency 'prometheus-client', '~> 2.0'