diff --git a/forge-cascade-v2/pyproject.toml b/forge-cascade-v2/pyproject.toml
index 9f387ed0..adb57dd8 100644
--- a/forge-cascade-v2/pyproject.toml
+++ b/forge-cascade-v2/pyproject.toml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
     # ML/AI
     "scikit-learn>=1.3.0,<2.0.0",
-    "sentence-transformers>=2.2.0,<3.0.0",
+    "sentence-transformers>=2.2.0,<6.0.0",
     "numpy>=1.26.0,<3.0.0",
 
     # Async utilities
diff --git a/forge-cascade-v2/requirements-ml.txt b/forge-cascade-v2/requirements-ml.txt
index 47a47b7f..ce0b22ab 100644
--- a/forge-cascade-v2/requirements-ml.txt
+++ b/forge-cascade-v2/requirements-ml.txt
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ scikit-learn==1.6.1
 numpy==2.2.2
 
 # Embeddings (pulls in torch and transformers)
-sentence-transformers==3.3.1
+sentence-transformers==5.2.2