diff --git a/atlas/atlas.py b/atlas/atlas.py
index c52b5138..3e7ee05c 100644
--- a/atlas/atlas.py
+++ b/atlas/atlas.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import click
 
 
-from snakemake.common.configfile import load_configfile
+from snakemake.io import load_configfile
 from .make_config import validate_config
 from .init.atlas_init import run_init  # , run_init_sra
 
diff --git a/atlas/make_config.py b/atlas/make_config.py
index 3f21dcb8..96332497 100644
--- a/atlas/make_config.py
+++ b/atlas/make_config.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from .default_values import *
 from snakemake.utils import update_config as snakemake_update_config
-from snakemake.common.configfile import load_configfile
+from snakemake.io import load_configfile
 import tempfile
 import sys
 import os
diff --git a/atlasenv.yml b/atlasenv.yml
index 4a4b32b4..c1ec80ea 100644
--- a/atlasenv.yml
+++ b/atlasenv.yml
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ channels:
   - bioconda
   - defaults
 dependencies:
-  - python =3.11
+  - python >=3.8, < 3.12
   - mamba
-  - bbmap >= 39.01
-  - snakemake-minimal >= 8
-  #- pygments
-  #- networkx
-  #- graphviz
-  - pandas =2
+  - bbmap >= 39.01, <40
+  - snakemake-minimal >= 7.18.1, <7.26
+  - pygments
+  - networkx
+  - graphviz
+  - pandas >=1.2, <1.6
   - pyarrow # for parquet reading
   - click >=7
   - ruamel.yaml >=0.17