diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index ffccc924..0a047708 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ pandas>=1.5.3
 scipy==1.10.1
 seaborn==0.12.2
 h5py>=3.7.0
-gefpy~=1.1.3
+gefpy>=1.1.6
 # setuptools>=41.0.0,<60.0.0
-setuptools>=61.0.0
+setuptools==68.2.2
 #todo python3.8/site-packages/umap/distances.py:1053: NumbaDeprecationWarning: The 'nopython' keyword argument was not supplied to the 'numba.jit' decorator.
 #The implicit default value for this argument is currently False, but it will be changed to True in Numba 0.59.0.
 #See https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/deprecation.html#deprecation-of-object-mode-fall-back-behaviour-when-using-jit for details.
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ fbpca>=1.0
 geosketch>=1.2
 pyscenic>=0.12.1
 onnxruntime==1.15.1
-POT==0.8.1.0
+POT==0.9.1
 distinctipy>=1.2.2
 joypy>=0.2.6
 lxml>=4.8.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 88dc41d6..c53736d2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ pandas>=1.5.3
 scipy==1.10.1
 seaborn==0.12.2
 h5py>=3.7.0
-gefpy==1.1.6
+gefpy>=1.1.6
 # setuptools>=41.0.0,<60.0.0
-setuptools>=61.0.0
+setuptools==68.2.2
 #todo python3.8/site-packages/umap/distances.py:1053: NumbaDeprecationWarning: The 'nopython' keyword argument was not supplied to the 'numba.jit' decorator.
 #The implicit default value for this argument is currently False, but it will be changed to True in Numba 0.59.0.
 #See https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/deprecation.html#deprecation-of-object-mode-fall-back-behaviour-when-using-jit for details.