diff --git a/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/requirements.txt b/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/requirements.txt
index f500bc598..b2a5d239c 100644
--- a/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/dependencies/requirements/base_requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -44,4 +44,4 @@ transformers<5.0.0
 # installing GPU versions from PyPI when running seed-env
 torch @ https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch-2.10.0%2Bcpu-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl
 torchvision @ https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torchvision-0.25.0%2Bcpu-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl
-qwix @ https://github.com/google/qwix/archive/408a0f48f988b6c5b180e07f0cb1d05997bf0dcc.zip
+qwix==0.1.8
diff --git a/dependencies/requirements/generated_requirements/requirements.txt b/dependencies/requirements/generated_requirements/requirements.txt
index 3aee20155..da356c936 100644
--- a/dependencies/requirements/generated_requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/dependencies/requirements/generated_requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ pytest>=8.4.2
 python-dateutil>=2.9.0.post0
 pytokens>=0.4.1
 pyyaml>=6.0.3
-qwix @ https://github.com/google/qwix/archive/408a0f48f988b6c5b180e07f0cb1d05997bf0dcc.zip
+qwix==0.1.8
 regex>=2026.2.28
 requests-oauthlib>=2.0.0
 requests>=2.32.5
diff --git a/src/install_maxdiffusion_extra_deps/extra_deps_from_github.txt b/src/install_maxdiffusion_extra_deps/extra_deps_from_github.txt
index 130c41aed..a651439be 100644
--- a/src/install_maxdiffusion_extra_deps/extra_deps_from_github.txt
+++ b/src/install_maxdiffusion_extra_deps/extra_deps_from_github.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 torch @ https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch-2.10.0%2Bcpu-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl
 torchvision @ https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torchvision-0.25.0%2Bcpu-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl
-qwix @ https://github.com/google/qwix/archive/408a0f48f988b6c5b180e07f0cb1d05997bf0dcc.zip
diff --git a/src/maxdiffusion/dependency_versions_table.py b/src/maxdiffusion/dependency_versions_table.py
index 90dda5004..241035ac3 100644
--- a/src/maxdiffusion/dependency_versions_table.py
+++ b/src/maxdiffusion/dependency_versions_table.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     "pyink": "pyink",
     "pylint": "pylint",
     "pytest": "pytest",
-    "qwix": "qwix @ https://github.com/google/qwix/archive/408a0f48f988b6c5b180e07f0cb1d05997bf0dcc.zip",
+    "qwix": "qwix==0.1.8",
     "ruff": "ruff",
     "scikit-image": "scikit-image",
     "sentencepiece": "sentencepiece",