diff --git a/conda/beat-devel/meta.yaml b/conda/beat-devel/meta.yaml
index 2218fea0fb64a5115a157415c255e8f913da9f6c..2e735b9b1141e93eadd8f802445fe89d79cf41b1 100644
--- a/conda/beat-devel/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/beat-devel/meta.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 {% set nopin = ['ca-certificates', 'certifi', 'openssl', 'libstdcxx-ng', 'libgcc-ng', 'libcxx', 'libcxxabi'] %}
 package:
   name: beat-devel
-  version: 2021.01.28
+  version: 2021.01.29
 
 build:
   # the build number must be zero all the time.
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ build:
 
 requirements:
   host:
-    - bob-devel 2021.01.28
+    - bob-devel 2021.01.29
     - python {{ python }}
     # the dependencies are pinned in bob-devel
     - docker-py
diff --git a/conda/bob-devel/meta.yaml b/conda/bob-devel/meta.yaml
index df736cead9ef385891e19a9e9acd6f23c7c96a91..0a5db8d9009e72868e6fc2b812f4a38ba0a20dcb 100644
--- a/conda/bob-devel/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/bob-devel/meta.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ package:
   # there as well in the same merge request.
   # Then open an MR in bob/bob.devtools to put these new versions of bob-devel and
   # beat-devel in `bob/devtools/data/conda_build_config.yaml`
-  version: 2021.01.28
+  version: 2021.01.29
 
 build:
   # the build number must be zero all the time.
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ requirements:
     - pybind11 2.5.0
     - pyopengl 3.1.1a1
     - pyqtgraph 0.11.0
+    - pytables 3.6.1
     - pytest 6.2.2
     - pytest-cov 2.11.1
     - python-graphviz 0.15