diff --git a/CMakeScripts/DefineDependsandFlags.cmake b/CMakeScripts/DefineDependsandFlags.cmake
index 9bbc990b7049f7a923499d06336001e3230a2a08..7f3a2a2a3576e39cdc3eb7f4ef24474175a66b6d 100644
--- a/CMakeScripts/DefineDependsandFlags.cmake
+++ b/CMakeScripts/DefineDependsandFlags.cmake
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
 pkg_check_modules(INKSCAPE_DEP REQUIRED
                   harfbuzz
                   pangocairo>=1.44
+                  pangocairo<=1.50.11
                   pangoft2
                   fontconfig
                   gsl
diff --git a/buildtools/msys2installdeps.sh b/buildtools/msys2installdeps.sh
index 92e1d8d5dbb29170273e7b03dcb42a8f62219db4..ac56fa07bfd31fef9b258bff860fb63284471f45 100644
--- a/buildtools/msys2installdeps.sh
+++ b/buildtools/msys2installdeps.sh
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ esac
 
 # set default options for invoking pacman (in CI this variable is already set globally)
 if [ -z $CI ]; then
-    PACMAN_OPTIONS="--needed --noconfirm"
+    PACMAN_OPTIONS="--needed --noconfirm --ignore=mingw-w64-*-pango"
 fi
 
 # sync package databases
@@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ $ARCH-meson \
 $ARCH-ninja \
 $ARCH-ccache
 
+# install pinned version of pango
+for arch in $(eval echo $ARCH); do
+  wget -nv https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/x86_64/${arch}-pango-1.50.11-1-any.pkg.tar.zst \
+    && pacman -U $PACMAN_OPTIONS ${arch}-pango-1.50.11-1-any.pkg.tar.zst \
+    && rm ${arch}-pango-*
+done
+
+
 # install Inkscape dependencies (required)
 eval pacman -S $PACMAN_OPTIONS \
 $ARCH-double-conversion \