diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 4b954d4..bf69e65 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -502,6 +502,25 @@ files = [
     {file = "colorama-0.4.6.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:08695f5cb7ed6e0531a20572697297273c47b8cae5a63ffc6d6ed5c201be6e44"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "comm"
+version = "0.1.4"
+description = "Jupyter Python Comm implementation, for usage in ipykernel, xeus-python etc."
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+files = [
+    {file = "comm-0.1.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:6d52794cba11b36ed9860999cd10fd02d6b2eac177068fdd585e1e2f8a96e67a"},
+    {file = "comm-0.1.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:354e40a59c9dd6db50c5cc6b4acc887d82e9603787f83b68c01a80a923984d15"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+traitlets = ">=4"
+
+[package.extras]
+lint = ["black (>=22.6.0)", "mdformat (>0.7)", "mdformat-gfm (>=0.3.5)", "ruff (>=0.0.156)"]
+test = ["pytest"]
+typing = ["mypy (>=0.990)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "coverage"
 version = "7.2.7"
@@ -1026,25 +1045,24 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ipywidgets"
-version = "7.7.5"
-description = "IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter"
+version = "8.1.0"
+description = "Jupyter interactive widgets"
 optional = false
-python-versions = "*"
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
-    {file = "ipywidgets-7.7.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:d9644e473282ca28a6bc0327372bcad7a41877d0092fea1ed70bd15f28be9270"},
-    {file = "ipywidgets-7.7.5.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2392943ed30253c84ac36f23f707fa1c9d34461ae5356944481a84d5b08d69b2"},
+    {file = "ipywidgets-8.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:6c8396cc7b8c95dfb4e9ab0054f48c002f045e7e5d7ae523f559d64e525a98ab"},
+    {file = "ipywidgets-8.1.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ce97dd90525b3066fd00094690964e7eac14cf9b7745d35565b5eeac20cce687"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-ipykernel = ">=4.5.1"
-ipython = {version = ">=4.0.0", markers = "python_version >= \"3.3\""}
-ipython-genutils = ">=0.2.0,<0.3.0"
-jupyterlab-widgets = {version = ">=1.0.0,<3", markers = "python_version >= \"3.6\""}
+comm = ">=0.1.3"
+ipython = ">=6.1.0"
+jupyterlab-widgets = ">=3.0.7,<3.1.0"
 traitlets = ">=4.3.1"
-widgetsnbextension = ">=3.6.4,<3.7.0"
+widgetsnbextension = ">=4.0.7,<4.1.0"
 
 [package.extras]
-test = ["ipykernel", "mock", "pytest (>=3.6.0)", "pytest-cov"]
+test = ["ipykernel", "jsonschema", "pytest (>=3.6.0)", "pytest-cov", "pytz"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "isoduration"
@@ -1136,6 +1154,7 @@ optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, !=3.5.*, !=3.6.*"
 files = [
     {file = "jsonpointer-2.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:15d51bba20eea3165644553647711d150376234112651b4f1811022aecad7d7a"},
+    {file = "jsonpointer-2.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:585cee82b70211fa9e6043b7bb89db6e1aa49524340dde8ad6b63206ea689d88"},
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1391,13 +1410,13 @@ test = ["hatch", "ipykernel", "jupyterlab-server[openapi]", "openapi-spec-valida
 
 [[package]]
 name = "jupyterlab-widgets"
-version = "1.1.4"
-description = "A JupyterLab extension."
+version = "3.0.8"
+description = "Jupyter interactive widgets for JupyterLab"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.6"
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
-    {file = "jupyterlab_widgets-1.1.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:769eb7bfef7e8ab70a7737104555531b09bcfba982f89465d2ae67b99b3f3e81"},
-    {file = "jupyterlab_widgets-1.1.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ea6e7612725e94d0966d64c6344910686f4bf8610533cd40daeba6980659b14d"},
+    {file = "jupyterlab_widgets-3.0.8-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4715912d6ceab839c9db35953c764b3214ebbc9161c809f6e0510168845dfdf5"},
+    {file = "jupyterlab_widgets-3.0.8.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d428ab97b8d87cc7c54cbf37644d6e0f0e662f23876e05fa460a73ec3257252a"},
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3520,18 +3539,15 @@ test = ["websockets"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "widgetsnbextension"
-version = "3.6.4"
-description = "IPython HTML widgets for Jupyter"
+version = "4.0.8"
+description = "Jupyter interactive widgets for Jupyter Notebook"
 optional = false
-python-versions = "*"
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
-    {file = "widgetsnbextension-3.6.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:3d2d4994aea8681eb438493e439f59f82ba81d91f388a12e55147ae137f4120e"},
-    {file = "widgetsnbextension-3.6.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ad1356c575d5add908afe886255deafb3f9b1589146a99279d1dcba5a05d16a5"},
+    {file = "widgetsnbextension-4.0.8-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2e37f0ce9da11651056280c7efe96f2db052fe8fc269508e3724f5cbd6c93018"},
+    {file = "widgetsnbextension-4.0.8.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9ec291ba87c2dfad42c3d5b6f68713fa18be1acd7476569516b2431682315c17"},
 ]
 
-[package.dependencies]
-notebook = ">=4.4.1"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "y-py"
 version = "0.5.9"
@@ -3644,4 +3660,4 @@ testing = ["big-O", "flake8 (<5)", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.7"
-content-hash = "1e005b1edb136ad23e6a2cffcc624340e432c3ff8707c3f8dd91df68665aff1a"
+content-hash = "27fd28fea5b122952403a627e247f6bef5a0c2c699eee19f57a680d16bfbdb0d"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1dd67a3..85fb349 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jupyterlab = "^3.3.4"
 nbconvert = "^6.5.0"
 PyVirtualDisplay = "^3.0"
 #sb3-contrib = { version="^2.0.0a13", allow-prereleases = true } # todo: bump to 2.0.0a?
-ipywidgets = "^7.7.0"
+ipywidgets = ">=7.7,<9.0"
 tqdm = "^4.64.0"
 shimmy = "^1.1.0"