diff --git a/dev-python/pillow-heif/pillow-heif-0.18.0.ebuild b/dev-python/pillow-heif/pillow-heif-0.18.0.ebuild
index 66db57dab3..6cb070a182 100644
--- a/dev-python/pillow-heif/pillow-heif-0.18.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pillow-heif/pillow-heif-0.18.0.ebuild
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	)
 	test? (
 		dev-python/pillow[jpeg,lcms,webp,zlib,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-		media-libs/libheif:=[x265]
+		>=media-libs/libheif-1.17.6:=[x265]
 	)
 "
 BDEPEND="