diff --git a/medcat-v2/pyproject.toml b/medcat-v2/pyproject.toml
index 2389025c..a675ebcb 100644
--- a/medcat-v2/pyproject.toml
+++ b/medcat-v2/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [project]
 name = "medcat"
 
-version = "2.0.0-dev"
+version = "2.2.0-dev"
 
 description = "Medical Concept Annotation Toolkit (v2)"
 
@@ -89,8 +89,6 @@ spacy = [
 ]
 meta_cat = [
   "transformers>=4.41.0,<5.0", # avoid major bump
-  # Transformers 4.57 doesn't support 3.9
-  "transformers!=4.57.0; python_version == '3.9'",
   "peft>0.8.2,<1.0",
   "torch>=2.4.0,<3.0",
   "scikit-learn>=1.1.3,<2.0",
@@ -103,11 +101,7 @@ dict_ner = [
 ]
 deid = [
   "datasets>=2.2.2,<3.0.0",
-  # Transformers 4.57 doesn't support 3.9
-  "transformers!=4.57.0; python_version == '3.9'",
   "transformers>=4.41.0,<5.0", # avoid major bump
-  # Transformers 4.57 doesn't support 3.9
-  "transformers!=4.57.0; python_version == '3.9'",
   "scikit-learn>=1.1.3,<2.0",
   "torch>=2.4.0,<3.0",
   # since 3.13 we need to use later version of scipy for it
@@ -115,11 +109,7 @@ deid = [
   "scipy>=1.14; python_version >= '3.13'",
 ]
 rel_cat = [
-  # Transformers 4.57 doesn't support 3.9
-  "transformers!=4.57.0; python_version == '3.9'",
   "transformers>=4.41.0,<5.0", # avoid major bump
-  # Transformers 4.57 doesn't support 3.9
-  "transformers!=4.57.0; python_version == '3.9'",
   "scikit-learn>=1.1.3,<2.0",
   "torch>=2.4.0,<3.0",
 ]