Require mobiledetectlib 4.8

Problem/Motivation

Currently module requires "mobiledetect/mobiledetectlib": "^2.8"

However, every now and then, the module fails since my site is running PHP 8.1

How can we make it for the module to require 4.8?
"mobiledetect/mobiledetectlib": "^4.8"

I tried editing the composer file inside the module, but when I run composer, it seems to always install 2.8 since it has not applied the patch yet. Any idea how to make composer read the 4.8 requirement before patch is applied? Or how is this achieved?

Thank you.