diff --git a/appimage/pre-requirements.txt b/appimage/pre-requirements.txt
index 8d0bfb6c1..24b9b921a 100644
--- a/appimage/pre-requirements.txt
+++ b/appimage/pre-requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-prompt_toolkit
+prompt-toolkit>=3.0.29,<3.0.41  # https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5241#issuecomment-1961889489
 Pygments
 ujson
diff --git a/news/appimage-py312.rst b/news/appimage-py312.rst
index 6a6b08bf8..e6a60770c 100644
--- a/news/appimage-py312.rst
+++ b/news/appimage-py312.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 **Changed:**
 
 * Xonsh AppImage now on Python 3.12 that works faster.
+* Xonsh AppImage: pinned prompt-toolkit version until fix upstream issue.
 
 **Deprecated:**