diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/671-pyyaml.yml b/changelogs/fragments/671-pyyaml.yml
index 04c0326b..43de927e 100644
--- a/changelogs/fragments/671-pyyaml.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/671-pyyaml.yml
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 bugfixes:
-  - "Execution Environment Python requirements - force ``PyYAML==5.3.1``, which is compatible to both docker-compose v1 (part of the community.docker 2.x.y EE requirements) and Cython 3.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/671)."
+  - "Execution Environment Python requirements - force ``PyYAML <= 5.3.1``, which is compatible to both docker-compose v1 (part of the community.docker 2.x.y EE requirements) and Cython 3.0.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.docker/pull/671)."
diff --git a/meta/ee-requirements.txt b/meta/ee-requirements.txt
index 0ce57890..9e3f196e 100644
--- a/meta/ee-requirements.txt
+++ b/meta/ee-requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 docker
 docker-compose
-PyYAML==5.3.1
+PyYAML <= 5.3.1