diff --git a/pygeoapi/util.py b/pygeoapi/util.py
index 00b04d9..720ad54 100644
--- a/pygeoapi/util.py
+++ b/pygeoapi/util.py
@@ -412,9 +412,8 @@ def render_j2_template(config: dict, template: Path,
         LOGGER.debug(f'using default templates: {TEMPLATES}')
 
     env = Environment(loader=FileSystemLoader(template_paths),
-                      extensions=['jinja2.ext.i18n',
-                                  'jinja2.ext.autoescape'],
-                      autoescape=select_autoescape(['html', 'xml']))
+                      extensions=['jinja2.ext.i18n'],
+                      autoescape=select_autoescape())
 
     env.filters['to_json'] = to_json
     env.filters['format_datetime'] = format_datetime
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c467e50..f6e5c7b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Babel
-click>7,<=8
+click
 Flask
-jinja2==3.0.3
+jinja2
 jsonschema
 pydantic
 pygeofilter
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ requests
 shapely<2.0
 SQLAlchemy<2.0.0
 tinydb
-unicodecsv
\ No newline at end of file
+unicodecsv