diff --git a/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md b/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md
index bd1d1e73c..2dbee5adc 100644
--- a/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md
+++ b/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 * Added pandas 2.0 support.
 * Added SQLAlchemy 2.0 support (and dropped support for versions below 1.4).
 * Reduced constructor arguments for `APIDataSet` by replacing most arguments with a single constructor argument `load_args`. This makes it more consistent with other Kedro DataSets and the underlying `requests` API, and automatically enables the full configuration domain: stream, certificates, proxies, and more.
+* Relaxed Kedro version pin to `>=0.16`
+
 ## Bug fixes and other changes
 * Relaxed `delta-spark` upper bound to allow compatibility with Spark 3.1.x and 3.2.x.
 
diff --git a/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml b/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
index a5f494106..ade79f48f 100644
--- a/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
+++ b/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ description = "Kedro-Datasets is where you can find all of Kedro's data connecto
 requires-python = ">=3.7, <3.11"
 license = {text = "Apache Software License (Apache 2.0)"}
 dependencies = [
-    "kedro~=0.18.4",
+    "kedro>=0.16",
 ]
 dynamic = ["readme", "version", "optional-dependencies"]