diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 8119637..ec157dd 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -3,26 +3,22 @@
     "description": "Encrypt and password protect sensitive XLSX files",
     "type": "library",
     "license": "MIT",
+    "__note__": "once pear/ole internalizes the dependency on pear-core-minimal, bumpt the pear/ole min version above and remove pear/pear-core-minimal from require-dev",
     "require": {
-        "php": "^7.3 || ^7.4 || ^8.0 || ^8.1 || ^8.2 || ^8.3 || ^8.4",
+        "php": "^7.3 || ^8.0",
         "ext-openssl": "*",
         "ext-hash": "*",
         "ext-simplexml": "*",
         "mnapoli/silly": "^1.0",
-        "pear/ole": "v1.0.0"
+        "pear/ole": "^1.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
-        "php": "^7.3 || ^7.4 || ^8.0 || ^8.1 || ^8.2 || ^8.3 || ^8.4",
-        "ext-openssl": "*",
-        "ext-hash": "*",
-        "phpunit/phpunit": "^9.6 || ^10 || ^11"
+        "phpunit/phpunit": "^9.6 || ^10 || ^11",
+        "pear/pear-core-minimal": "*"
     },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-4": {
             "Nick\\SecureSpreadsheet\\": "src/"
-        },
-        "psr-0": {
-            "OLE": "vendor/pear/ole/OLE"
         }
     },
     "authors": [