diff --git a/deploy/conda-dev-spec.template b/deploy/conda-dev-spec.template
index 07aba1618f..def310e45e 100644
--- a/deploy/conda-dev-spec.template
+++ b/deploy/conda-dev-spec.template
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ requests
 scipy>=1.8.0
 shapely>=2.0,<3.0
 spatialpandas
-uxarray
+uxarray <2025.01.0
 xarray
 
 # Static typing
diff --git a/polaris/version.py b/polaris/version.py
index 7a35f4197f..83da76a51d 100644
--- a/polaris/version.py
+++ b/polaris/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.5.0-alpha.1'
+__version__ = '0.5.0-alpha.2'