diff --git a/comps/dataprep/vdms/langchain/requirements.txt b/comps/dataprep/vdms/langchain/requirements.txt
index 8f7be8d568..96fac92158 100644
--- a/comps/dataprep/vdms/langchain/requirements.txt
+++ b/comps/dataprep/vdms/langchain/requirements.txt
@@ -18,10 +18,12 @@ numpy
 opencv-python
 opentelemetry-api
 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
+opentelemetry-proto==1.23.0
 opentelemetry-sdk
 pandas
 Pillow
 prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator
+protobuf==4.24.2
 pymupdf
 pyspark
 pytesseract
@@ -36,4 +38,4 @@ typing
 tzlocal
 unstructured[all-docs]==0.11.5
 uvicorn
-vdms
+vdms>=0.0.20
diff --git a/comps/dataprep/vdms/multimodal_langchain/requirements.txt b/comps/dataprep/vdms/multimodal_langchain/requirements.txt
index f6044266c3..773f912897 100644
--- a/comps/dataprep/vdms/multimodal_langchain/requirements.txt
+++ b/comps/dataprep/vdms/multimodal_langchain/requirements.txt
@@ -17,10 +17,12 @@ numpy
 opencv-python
 opentelemetry-api
 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
+opentelemetry-proto==1.23.0
 opentelemetry-sdk
 pandas
 Pillow
 prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator
+protobuf==4.24.2
 pymupdf
 pyspark
 python-bidi==0.4.2
@@ -34,4 +36,4 @@ typing
 tzlocal
 unstructured[all-docs]==0.11.5
 uvicorn
-vdms
+vdms>=0.0.20
diff --git a/comps/retrievers/vdms/langchain/requirements.txt b/comps/retrievers/vdms/langchain/requirements.txt
index 9138aea2e3..44d80c13b6 100644
--- a/comps/retrievers/vdms/langchain/requirements.txt
+++ b/comps/retrievers/vdms/langchain/requirements.txt
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ langchain-core
 langchain-huggingface
 opentelemetry-api
 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
+opentelemetry-proto==1.23.0
 opentelemetry-sdk
 prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator
+protobuf==4.24.2
 pymupdf
 sentence_transformers
 shortuuid
 uvicorn
-vdms
+vdms>=0.0.20