diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8b7b03b1..d31a7800 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ curl --request POST \
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+
 ### Custom Handler and dependency support
 
 The Hugging Face Inference Toolkit allows user to provide a custom inference through a `handler.py` file which is located in the repository.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d5b3da68..4b83dea9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # libavcodec-extra : libavcodec-extra  includes additional codecs for ffmpeg
 
 install_requires = [
-    "transformers[sklearn,sentencepiece,audio,vision]==4.48.0",
+    "transformers[sklearn,sentencepiece,audio,vision]==4.49.0",
     "huggingface_hub[hf_transfer]==0.27.1",
     # vision
     "Pillow",