diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b351b0c46b..a3e01b2b78 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
+* chore: restrict `analyzer` version to `>=2.4.0 <4.2.0`.
+
 ## 4.15.2
 
 * feat: add the `ignored-patterns` option to [`format-comment`](https://dartcodemetrics.dev/docs/rules/common/format-comment). The given regular expressions will be used to ignore comments that match them.
diff --git a/pubspec.yaml b/pubspec.yaml
index 5fdb616b40..d104815542 100644
--- a/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/pubspec.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ environment:
   sdk: ">=2.14.0 <3.0.0"
 
 dependencies:
-  analyzer: ">=2.4.0 <4.1.0"
+  analyzer: ">=2.4.0 <4.2.0"
   analyzer_plugin: ">=0.8.0 <0.11.0"
   ansicolor: ^2.0.1
   args: ^2.0.0