diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1c5eb8fef..be5947e85 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "triton>=3.0.0 ; ('linux' in sys_platform)",
     "tyro ; (sys_platform != 'darwin' or platform_machine != 'arm64')",
     "accelerate>=0.34.1 ; (sys_platform != 'darwin' or platform_machine != 'arm64')",
-    "trl>=0.18.2,!=0.19.0,<=0.24.0 ; (sys_platform != 'darwin' or platform_machine != 'arm64')",
+    "trl>=0.18.2,!=0.19.0,<0.30.0 ; (sys_platform != 'darwin' or platform_machine != 'arm64')",
     "peft>=0.18.0,!=0.11.0 ; (sys_platform != 'darwin' or platform_machine != 'arm64')",
     "cut_cross_entropy ; python_version >= '3.10' and (sys_platform != 'darwin' or platform_machine != 'arm64')",
     # --- MLX-only deps (macOS arm64) ---
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ core = [
     "wheel>=0.42.0",
     "numpy",
     "accelerate>=0.34.1",
-    "trl>=0.18.2,!=0.19.0,<=0.24.0",
+    "trl>=0.18.2,!=0.19.0,<0.30.0",
     "peft>=0.18.0,!=0.11.0",
     "protobuf",
     "huggingface_hub>=0.34.0",