diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 97cfad9..10215d5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ authors = [
 ]
 description = "A language-agnostic LSP client in Python, with a library interface. Intended to be used to build applications around language servers. Currently multilspy supports language servers for Python, Rust, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby and C#. Originally appeared as part of Monitor-Guided Decoding (https://github.com/microsoft/monitors4codegen)"
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.7"
+requires-python = ">=3.8, <4.0"
 classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ classifiers = [
 
 dependencies = [
   "jedi-language-server==0.41.1",
-  "pydantic>=1.10.5, <2",
-  "requests==2.32.3"
+  "requests==2.32.3",
+  "typing-extensions>=4.2.0"
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e07f909..4175153 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 jedi-language-server==0.41.1
 pytest==7.3.1
-pydantic>=1.10.5, <2
 pytest-asyncio==0.21.1
 requests==2.32.3
+typing-extensions>=4.2.0
diff --git a/src/multilspy/multilspy_logger.py b/src/multilspy/multilspy_logger.py
index 86b83ee..df856bf 100644
--- a/src/multilspy/multilspy_logger.py
+++ b/src/multilspy/multilspy_logger.py
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 Multilspy logger module.
 """
 import inspect
+import json
 import logging
 from datetime import datetime
-from pydantic import BaseModel
+from typing_extensions import TypedDict
 
-class LogLine(BaseModel):
+class LogLine(TypedDict):
     """
     Represents a line in the Multilspy log
     """
@@ -49,10 +50,10 @@ def log(self, debug_message: str, level: int, sanitized_error_message: str = "")
             caller_file=caller_file,
             caller_name=caller_name,
             caller_line=caller_line,
-            message=debug_message,
+            message=debug_message
         )
 
         self.logger.log(
             level=level,
-            msg=debug_log_line.json(),
+            msg=json.dumps(debug_log_line),
         )