diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b0caf64..f034e69 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ dependencies = [
 # Document Q&A (llmstack ask)
 ask = ["numpy>=1.24", "pymupdf>=1.27.2.3", "python-docx>=1.2.0"]
 # API gateway server
-gateway = ["fastapi>=0.136.3", "uvicorn[standard]>=0.49.0", "starlette>=1.2.1", "redis>=5.0", "httpx[http2]>=0.27"]
+gateway = ["fastapi>=0.136.3", "uvicorn[standard]>=0.49.0", "starlette>=1.2.1", "redis>=8.0.0", "httpx[http2]>=0.27"]
 # Fine-tuning pipeline (llmstack finetune)
 finetune = [
     "transformers>=4.45",
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ dev = [
     "ruff>=0.15.15",
     "fastapi>=0.136.3",
     "starlette>=1.2.1",
-    "redis>=5.0",
+    "redis>=8.0.0",
     "httpx[http2]>=0.27",
     "fakeredis>=2.21",
     "pre-commit>=4.6.0",
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ watch = ["httpx>=0.27"]
 # Everything except finetune (which needs a GPU)
 all = [
     "numpy>=1.24", "pymupdf>=1.27.2.3", "python-docx>=1.2.0",
-    "fastapi>=0.136.3", "uvicorn[standard]>=0.49.0", "starlette>=1.2.1", "redis>=5.0",
+    "fastapi>=0.136.3", "uvicorn[standard]>=0.49.0", "starlette>=1.2.1", "redis>=8.0.0",
     "httpx[http2]>=0.27",
     "transformers>=4.45", "peft>=0.13", "trl>=0.12",
     "datasets>=3.0", "bitsandbytes>=0.44", "accelerate>=1.13.0",