diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3d16c02dbc..3bcc3bba0e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Added
 
-### Change
+### Changed
+* Bump minimum NumPy version to 1.26 [gh-2192](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpctl/pull/2192)
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/conda-recipe/conda_build_config.yaml b/conda-recipe/conda_build_config.yaml
index 247aaa4ec2..c5df1a7f2e 100644
--- a/conda-recipe/conda_build_config.yaml
+++ b/conda-recipe/conda_build_config.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 numpy:
-    - '1.23'
+    - '1.26'
 c_compiler:                   # [linux]
     - gcc                     # [linux]
 cxx_compiler:                 # [linux]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 92be4c0771..7255200637 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ requires = [
   "ninja>=1.11.1; platform_system!='Windows'",
   "cmake>=3.29.0",
   "cython>=3.0.10",
-  "numpy >=1.23",
+  "numpy >=1.26.0",
   # WARNING: check with doc how to upgrade
   "versioneer[toml]==0.29"
 ]
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ dependencies = [
   # TODO: do we have to set sycl runtime dependencies here
   # "dpcpp-cpp-rt>=0.59.0",
   # "intel-cmplr-lib-rt>=0.59.0"
-  "numpy>=1.23.0"
+  "numpy>=2.0.0"
 ]
 description = "A lightweight Python wrapper for a subset of SYCL."
 dynamic = ["version"]