diff --git a/build/dashboard/pyproject.toml b/build/dashboard/pyproject.toml
index edcfb75..e8db7eb 100644
--- a/build/dashboard/pyproject.toml
+++ b/build/dashboard/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=68"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=82.0.1"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ license = { text = "MIT" }
 dependencies = [
   "aiohttp>=3.10.11",
   # [socks] pulls in PySocks so the XvB stats fetch can route over the Tor SOCKS proxy (#163).
-  "requests[socks]>=2.32.4",
+  "requests[socks]>=2.34.2",
   # grpcio/protobuf floors are dictated by the checked-in Tari gRPC stubs
   # (mining_dashboard/client/tari/generated/*_pb2*.py), which assert these at
   # import time. Do not resolve lower; regenerate the stubs if bumping.
diff --git a/build/dashboard/uv.lock b/build/dashboard/uv.lock
index 104c128..57133e5 100644
--- a/build/dashboard/uv.lock
+++ b/build/dashboard/uv.lock
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "pytest-asyncio", marker = "extra == 'test'", specifier = ">=0.24" },
     { name = "pytest-cov", marker = "extra == 'test'", specifier = ">=5" },
     { name = "pytest-mock", marker = "extra == 'test'", specifier = ">=3.14" },
-    { name = "requests", extras = ["socks"], specifier = ">=2.32.4" },
+    { name = "requests", extras = ["socks"], specifier = ">=2.34.2" },
     { name = "ruff", marker = "extra == 'dev'", specifier = "==0.15.17" },
 ]
 provides-extras = ["test", "dev"]