diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index cf6a65d2..25b3f62a 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Changelog
 ---------
 
+Not yet released
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+**release date:** TBA
+
+* Relax the ``platformdirs`` dependency requirement to ``>= 3``
+
 2.2.0
 ^^^^^
 **release date:** 2024-06-24
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 80f3c82b..e58d4303 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "dogpile.cache>=1.0",
     "enzyme>=0.5.0",
     "guessit>=3.0.0",
-    "platformdirs>=4.2",
+    "platformdirs>=3",
     "pysubs2>=1.7",
     "rarfile>=2.7",
     "requests>=2.0",