diff --git a/conda/menpo/meta.yaml b/conda/menpo/meta.yaml
index 24fd581adda5a5c767f9064095138a028585b446..b787f74e107b9f03afa8ac270f80de47c21dece8 100644
--- a/conda/menpo/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/menpo/meta.yaml
@@ -11,13 +11,15 @@ source:
   url: https://github.com/menpo/menpo/archive/v{{ version }}.tar.gz
   sha256: {{ sha256 }}
   patches:
+    # removes the pinning for scipy<1
+    - no-scipy-pin.patch
     # removes the pinning for matplotlib<2
     - no-matplotlib-pin.patch
     # relaxes the pathlib pinning for python 2.x
     - relax-pathlib-pin.patch
 
 build:
-  number: 3
+  number: 4
   script: python setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --record=record.txt
   run_exports:
     - {{ pin_subpackage(name, max_pin='x.x') }}
diff --git a/conda/menpo/no-scipy-pin.patch b/conda/menpo/no-scipy-pin.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fa6fd705156ba95f8c9285ae719c4c0403c769ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conda/menpo/no-scipy-pin.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index dc348290..6b4145d6 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ cython_exts = cythonize(cython_modules, quiet=True)
+ 
+ # Please see conda/meta.yaml for other binary dependencies
+ install_requires = ['numpy>=1.10,<2.0',
+-                    'scipy>=0.16,<1.0',
++                    'scipy>=0.16',
+                     'matplotlib>=1.4,<3.0',
+                     'pillow>=3.0,<5.0']
+