diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8701c44..8f65ece 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ This file documents any relevant changes.
 - feature: added support for overriding default ports
 - feature: viur cloud setup gcloud now requires deploy diretory in current working directory
 - feature: added support for cloudfunction gen2
+- chore: bumped app_server version to ~=1 
 
 ## [2.0.3] 2024-07-29
 - fix: breaking typo
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 1c1fbe7..d89a1d5 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ package_dir =
 packages = find:
 python_requires = >=3.11
 install_requires =
-    app_server~=0.9
+    app_server~=1.0
     click~=8.1.7
     pipfile-requirements~=0.3
     requests~=2.31