diff --git a/server/app/rest_api/rest.py b/server/app/rest_api/rest.py
index f6c60e98..55f0d32d 100644
--- a/server/app/rest_api/rest.py
+++ b/server/app/rest_api/rest.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class ConfigAPI(Resource):
                 },
                 "links": {"about-dataset": current_app.config["ABOUT_DATASET"]},
                 "parameters": {**current_app.data.get_config_parameters(uid=cxguid, collection=anno_collection)},
-                "library_versions": {"cellxgene": cellxgene_version, "anndata": anndata_version},
+                "library_versions": {"cellxgene": cellxgene_version, "anndata": str(anndata_version)},
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/server/app/scanpy_engine/matrix_proxy.py b/server/app/scanpy_engine/matrix_proxy.py
index 29e0e4fe..c244d4b6 100644
--- a/server/app/scanpy_engine/matrix_proxy.py
+++ b/server/app/scanpy_engine/matrix_proxy.py
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ class MatrixProxy_anndata_h5py(MatrixProxyView):
             "anndata.h5py.h5sparse.backed_csc_matrix",
             "anndata.h5py.h5sparse.backed_csr_matrix",
             "h5py._hl.dataset.Dataset",
+            "anndata._core.sparse_dataset.backed_csr_matrix",
+            "anndata._core.sparse_dataset.backed_csc_matrix",
         )
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/server/app/util/matrix_proxy.py b/server/app/util/matrix_proxy.py
index ad81c43f..988d6f75 100644
--- a/server/app/util/matrix_proxy.py
+++ b/server/app/util/matrix_proxy.py
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ class MatrixProxy(_ArrayProxyBase):
         "numpy.ndarray": True,
         "scipy.sparse.csc.csc_matrix": True,
         "scipy.sparse.csr.csr_matrix": True,
+        "anndata._core.sparse_dataset.backed_csr_matrix": "MatrixProxy_anndata_h5py",
+        "anndata._core.sparse_dataset.backed_csc_matrix": "MatrixProxy_anndata_h5py",
     }
     proxy_registry = None
     last_cache_token = None
diff --git a/server/requirements.txt b/server/requirements.txt
index 0b8abc51..085c1cb1 100644
--- a/server/requirements.txt
+++ b/server/requirements.txt
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
-# TEMP anndata 0.7 breaks cellxgene - workaround
-anndata==0.6.22post1
-click>=6.7
-fastobo>=0.6.1
-Flask>=1.0.2
-Flask-Caching>=1.4.0
-Flask-Compress>=1.4.0
-Flask-Cors>=3.0.6
-Flask-RESTful>=0.3.6
-flatbuffers>=1.10.0
-fsspec>=0.4.4
-numpy>=1.15.2
-pandas>=0.24.2
-scipy>=1.3.0
-tables==3.5.1
-# TEMP workaround for https://github.com/theislab/scanpy/issues/832 aka h5py regression
-h5py==2.9.0
-requests>=2.22.0
+anndata>=0.6.2
+click>=6.7
+fastobo>=0.6.1
+Flask>=1.0.2
+Flask-Caching>=1.4.0
+Flask-Compress>=1.4.0
+Flask-Cors>=3.0.6
+Flask-RESTful>=0.3.6
+flatbuffers>=1.10.0
+fsspec>=0.4.4
+numpy>=1.15.2
+pandas>=0.24.2
+scipy>=1.3.0
+tables==3.5.1
+# TEMP workaround for https://github.com/theislab/scanpy/issues/832 aka h5py regression
+h5py==2.9.0
+requests>=2.22.0