diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 91b9c5d..e4bf3b4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 Jinja2==3.1.2
 Pygments~=2.18.0
-# TODO replace with a pypi published version once https://github.com/falconry/falcon/pull/1945
-# appears in a release (NOTE: it's not in 3.1.3).
-Falcon @ git+https://github.com/falconry/falcon.git@cbca63dc7739720eab856f48b32f9e782438be7a
+Falcon~=4.0.2
 pytest==7.2.1
 
 # NOTE binary wheels of berkeleydb are not distributed - on Debian this may