diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 67892ad7..cd2d31e8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ test = [
     "redis>=5.0",            # Redis wire
     "neo4j>=5.0",            # Bolt
     "pyarrow>=23.0.1",       # ResultSet.to_arrow(); <23.0.1 has PYSEC-2026-113
-    "polars>=1.0",           # ResultSet.to_polars(), insert_dataframe() with a Polars frame
+    "polars>=2.0.0",           # ResultSet.to_polars(), insert_dataframe() with a Polars frame
     # ResultSet.to_dataframe(). Absent until 2026-08-04, which meant its two
     # tests called importorskip("pandas") and skipped in every CI run this
     # package has ever had: a public, documented method with no executed
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ pandas = [
 # `pip install 'arcadedb-jvm[arrow,pandas]'` (the pandas extra alone has no pyarrow,
 # because to_dataframe() does not need it).
 polars = [
-    "polars>=1.0",
+    "polars>=2.0.0",
     "pyarrow>=23.0.1",
     "numpy>=1.26.4",
 ]