diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6222b1f8..7183da22 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 click>=8.1.7,<9.0.0
 datasets>=2.18.0,<3.0.0
-docling>=2.3.0,<3.0.0
+docling>=2.4.2,<3.0.0
 GitPython>=3.1.42,<4.0.0
 httpx>=0.25.0,<1.0.0
 instructlab-schema>=0.4.0