diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.rst b/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
index 42ae56d3..a72fcfef 100755
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ Upcoming Release
 
 * Added support for ``numpy>=2".
 
+* Exclude versions 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 of ``rasterio`` due to a bug in these
+  versions causing flipped axes in ``cutout.compute_availabilitymatrix()``.
+
 Version 0.3.0
 =============
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index de0447ac..d05d20dc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "toolz",
     "requests",
     "pyyaml",
-    "rasterio",
+    "rasterio!=1.4.0,!=1.4.1",
     "shapely",
     "progressbar2",
     "tqdm",