diff --git a/.scala-steward.conf b/.scala-steward.conf
index f615e72757..7907b9c0e4 100644
--- a/.scala-steward.conf
+++ b/.scala-steward.conf
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 updatePullRequests = "always"
 
+updates.pin = [
+  # We may drop this when we drop JDK 8 since minimum JDK is 11 from logback-classic 1.4.0
+  { groupId = "ch.qos.logback", artifactId="logback-classic", version="1.3." }
+]