diff --git a/requirements-optional.txt b/requirements-optional.txt
index 5e748b1d8..0ef5aa0f9 100644
--- a/requirements-optional.txt
+++ b/requirements-optional.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ boto3>=1.24.56  # For deploy_model method
 fastapi  # For web api
 uvicorn>=0.17.6  # For web api
 m2cgen>=0.9.0  # For model conversion
-evidently
+evidently~=0.4.16
 
 # Parallel
 fugue
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index add916fdb..5122794e3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ plotly-resampler>=0.8.3.1
 
 # Time-series
 statsmodels>=0.12.1
-sktime==0.26.0 # 0.26.0 support for scikit-learn 1.4
+sktime~=0.26.0 # 0.26.0 support for scikit-learn 1.4
 tbats>=1.1.3
 pmdarima>=2.0.4
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