diff --git a/eolearn/core/eodata_io.py b/eolearn/core/eodata_io.py
index 8e2d984e..3ce0054c 100644
--- a/eolearn/core/eodata_io.py
+++ b/eolearn/core/eodata_io.py
@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@
 import gzip
 import itertools
 import json
+import os
 import platform
+import shutil
 import sys
+import tempfile
 import warnings
 from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
 from collections import defaultdict
@@ -651,13 +654,17 @@ def _get_uncompressed_file_extension(cls) -> str:
         return ".gpkg"
 
     def _read_from_file(self, file: BinaryIO | gzip.GzipFile) -> gpd.GeoDataFrame:
-        dataframe = gpd.read_file(file)
+        # pyogrio (geopandas >= 1) warns when reading GPKG from virtual in-memory
+        # files without a .gpkg extension. Suppress this warning as it's harmless.
+        with warnings.catch_warnings():
+            warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message=".*GPKG application_id.*", category=RuntimeWarning)
+            dataframe = gpd.read_file(file)
 
         if dataframe.crs is not None:
             # Trying to preserve a standard CRS and passing otherwise
             with contextlib.suppress(ValueError), warnings.catch_warnings():
                 warnings.simplefilter("ignore", category=SHUserWarning)
-                dataframe.crs = CRS(dataframe.crs).pyproj_crs()
+                dataframe = dataframe.set_crs(CRS(dataframe.crs).pyproj_crs())
 
         if TIMESTAMP_COLUMN in dataframe:
             dataframe[TIMESTAMP_COLUMN] = pd.to_datetime(dataframe[TIMESTAMP_COLUMN])
@@ -675,6 +682,34 @@ def _write_to_file(cls, data: gpd.GeoDataFrame, file: BinaryIO | gzip.GzipFile,
             )
             return data.to_file(file, driver="GPKG", encoding="utf-8", layer=layer, index=False)
 
+    @classmethod
+    def _save(cls, data: gpd.GeoDataFrame, filesystem: FS, path: str, compress_level: int) -> None:
+        """Save GeoDataFrame, handling pyogrio (geopandas >= 1) which requires a real file path
+        for GPKG format and cannot write to open file handles or gzip-wrapped file objects.
+
+        This overrides the parent's _save to first write to a temporary .gpkg file, then
+        copy (and optionally gzip-compress) the content to the target filesystem.
+        """
+        layer = fs.path.basename(path)
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
+            tmp_gpkg = os.path.join(tmp_dir, "feature.gpkg")
+            with warnings.catch_warnings():
+                warnings.filterwarnings(
+                    "ignore",
+                    message="You are attempting to write an empty DataFrame to file*",
+                    category=UserWarning,
+                )
+                data.to_file(tmp_gpkg, driver="GPKG", encoding="utf-8", layer=layer, index=False)
+
+            if compress_level == 0:
+                with open(tmp_gpkg, "rb") as gpkg_file:
+                    filesystem.writebytes(path, gpkg_file.read())
+            else:
+                with filesystem.openbin(path, "w") as file:
+                    with gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=file, compresslevel=compress_level, mode="wb") as gzip_file:
+                        with open(tmp_gpkg, "rb") as gpkg_file:
+                            shutil.copyfileobj(gpkg_file, gzip_file)
+
 
 class FeatureIOJson(FeatureIOGZip[T]):
     """FeatureIO object specialized for JSON-like objects."""
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9c794c78..90e73842 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ dependencies = [
     "boto3",
     "fs",
     "fs-s3fs",
-    "geopandas>=0.14.4,<1; python_version>='3.9'",
-    "geopandas>=0.11.0,<1; python_version<'3.9'",
+    "geopandas>=0.14.4; python_version>='3.9'",
+    "geopandas>=0.11.0; python_version<'3.9'",
     "numpy>=1.20.0",
     "python-dateutil",
     "sentinelhub>=3.9.0",