diff --git a/.github/workflows/cmd-help.yml b/.github/workflows/cmd-help.yml
index 7453de91333..5b0d4b6f9f0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cmd-help.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cmd-help.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Update with comment
-        uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v3.0.2
+        uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v3.1.0
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.PAT_GHOST }}
           reaction-token: ${{ secrets.PAT_GHOST }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cmd-rebase.yml b/.github/workflows/cmd-rebase.yml
index 2655b13de1e..59c0c46338f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cmd-rebase.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cmd-rebase.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
           git push --force-with-lease
 
       - name: Update comment
-        uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v3.0.2
+        uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v3.1.0
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.PAT_GHOST }}
           repository: ${{ github.event.client_payload.github.payload.repository.full_name }}
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Update comment
-        uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v3.0.2
+        uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v3.1.0
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.PAT_GHOST }}
           repository: ${{ github.event.client_payload.github.payload.repository.full_name }}
diff --git a/requirements/_tests.txt b/requirements/_tests.txt
index fe0ee5a90f4..3d073bb5b00 100644
--- a/requirements/_tests.txt
+++ b/requirements/_tests.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #  in case you want to preserve/enforce restrictions on the latest compatible version, add "strict" as an in-line comment
 
 coverage ==7.3.2
-pytest ==7.4.2
+pytest ==7.4.3
 pytest-cov ==4.1.0
 pytest-doctestplus ==1.0.0
 pytest-rerunfailures ==12.0
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ psutil <5.10.0
 requests <=2.31.0
 fire <=0.5.0
 
-cloudpickle >1.3, <=2.2.1
+cloudpickle >1.3, <=3.0.0
 scikit-learn >=1.1.1, <1.4.0
diff --git a/requirements/multimodal.txt b/requirements/multimodal.txt
index 1448edaf8f5..8330a69bb4c 100644
--- a/requirements/multimodal.txt
+++ b/requirements/multimodal.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # NOTE: the upper bound for the package version is only set for CI stability, and it is dropped while installing this package
 #  in case you want to preserve/enforce restrictions on the latest compatible version, add "strict" as an in-line comment
 
-transformers >=4.10.0, <4.30.3
+transformers >=4.10.0, <4.34.2
 piq <=0.8.0
diff --git a/requirements/text.txt b/requirements/text.txt
index fde185bad81..3ab604ae4d0 100644
--- a/requirements/text.txt
+++ b/requirements/text.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 nltk >=3.6, <=3.8.1
 tqdm >=4.41.0, <=4.66.1
 regex >=2021.9.24, <=2023.10.3
-transformers >4.4.0, <4.30.3
+transformers >4.4.0, <4.34.2
 mecab-python3 >=1.0.6, <1.1.0
 mecab-ko >=1.0.0, <1.1.0
 mecab-ko-dic >=1.0.0, <1.1.0