diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index df2d9ec..1a20461 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Reading and writing image, sound and npz file formats to and from xtensor data s
 conda install xtensor-io -c conda-forge
 ```
 
-- `xtensor-io` depends on `xtensor` `^0.21.2`.
+- `xtensor-io` depends on `xtensor` `^0.22.0`.
 
 - `OpenImageIO`, `libsndfile`, `zlib`, `HighFive`, and `blosc` are optional dependencies to `xtensor-io`
 
diff --git a/environment-dev.yml b/environment-dev.yml
index 4b89b32..36b29f9 100644
--- a/environment-dev.yml
+++ b/environment-dev.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ dependencies:
   - nlohmann_json
   - google-cloud-cpp=1.21.0
   - aws-sdk-cpp
-  - xtensor=0.21.10
+  - xtensor=0.22.0
   - cpp-filesystem