diff --git a/nvim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/base.lua b/nvim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/base.lua
index 35bac31..838f938 100644
--- a/nvim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/base.lua
+++ b/nvim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/base.lua
@@ -251,4 +251,6 @@ return {
 	{ "stevearc/stickybuf.nvim", config = true },
 	-- make it a little less painful to open really big (>2mb) files by disabling features
 	-- { "LunarVim/bigfile.nvim", lazy = false },
+	-- set plenary to follow master branch here, but let individual plugins actually load it
+	{ "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim", version = false, optional = true },
 }