diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c3352c4..91c7001 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+## Upcoming (TBC)
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* Avoid Click 8.1.* to prevent messing up the pager when the PAGER env var has a string with spaces.
+
 ## 1.16.0 - 2025-08-16
 
 ### Features
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e2f8eef..aa55428 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ authors = [{ name = "dbcli", email = "litecli-users@googlegroups.com" }]
 urls = { "homepage" = "https://github.com/dbcli/litecli" }
 dependencies = [
     "cli-helpers[styles]>=2.2.1",
-    "click>=4.1",
+    "click>=4.1,!=8.1.*",
     "configobj>=5.0.5",
     "prompt-toolkit>=3.0.3,<4.0.0",
     "pygments>=1.6",