ENH: Allow newer version of dependencies

Pinning basic packages such as "requests" to a specific patch level release such "2.31.0" is too strict. New releases and especially new patch releases allow to use latest security updates of various packages.

Signed-off-by: James Butler <[email protected]>

requirements.txt

@@ -10,40 +10,40 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 monai[nibabel, skimage, pillow, tensorboard, gdown, ignite, torchvision, itk, tqdm, lmdb, psutil, openslide, fire, mlflow]>=1.3.1
-uvicorn==0.29.0
-pydantic==2.7.0
-pydantic-settings==2.2.1
-python-dotenv==1.0.1
-fastapi==0.110.2
-python-multipart==0.0.9
-httpx==0.27.0
-schedule==1.2.1
-dicomweb-client[gcp]==0.59.1
-timeloop==1.0.2
-expiringdict==1.2.2
-expiring_dict==1.1.0
-cachetools==5.3.3
-watchdog==4.0.0
-pydicom==2.4.4
-pydicom-seg==0.4.1
-pynetdicom==2.0.2
-pynrrd==1.0.0
-numpymaxflow==0.0.6
-girder-client==3.2.3
-ninja==1.11.1.1
-einops==0.7.0
-pyyaml==6.0.1
-filelock==3.11.0
-passlib==1.7.4
-pyjwt==2.8.0
-bcrypt==4.1.2
-shapely==2.0.4
-requests==2.31.0
-requests-toolbelt==1.0.0
-urllib3==2.2.1
+uvicorn>=0.29.0
+pydantic>=2.7.0
+pydantic-settings>=2.2.1
+python-dotenv>=1.0.1
+fastapi>=0.110.2
+python-multipart>=0.0.9
+httpx>=0.27.0
+schedule>=1.2.1
+dicomweb-client[gcp]>=0.59.1
+timeloop>=1.0.2
+expiringdict>=1.2.2
+expiring_dict>=1.1.0
+cachetools>=5.3.3
+watchdog>=4.0.0
+pydicom>=2.4.4
+pydicom-seg>=0.4.1
+pynetdicom>=2.0.2
+pynrrd>=1.0.0
+numpymaxflow>=0.0.6
+girder-client>=3.2.3
+ninja>=1.11.1.1
+einops>=0.7.0
+pyyaml>=6.0.1
+filelock>=3.11.0
+passlib>=1.7.4
+pyjwt>=2.8.0
+bcrypt>=4.1.2
+shapely>=2.0.4
+requests>=2.31.0
+requests-toolbelt>=1.0.0
+urllib3>=2.2.1
 scikit-learn
 scipy
-google-auth==2.29.0
+google-auth>=2.29.0
 
 
 # scipy and scikit-learn latest packages are missing on python 3.8