diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 67543712a3..1ebe7a5804 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ all_extras = [
     "pyod>=1.1.3",
 
     # dependency of tensorflow, see issue #1724
-    "keras<3.4",
+    "keras<3.4.0",
     # for some reason, a heirarchical dask test fails on some Python versions with the
     # later versions of pyarrow and dask
     "dask[dataframe]<2024.3.0; python_version < '3.11'",
@@ -92,13 +92,13 @@ all_extras = [
 ]
 dl = [
     "keras-self-attention",
+    "tensorflow>=2.14; python_version < '3.12'",
     # dependency of tensorflow, see issue #1724
-    "keras<3.4",
-    "tensorflow>=2.12; python_version < '3.12'",
+    "keras<3.4.0",
 ]
 unstable_extras = [
-    "mrsqm>=0.0.1,<0.1.0; platform_system == 'Darwin' and python_version < '3.12'",  # requires gcc and fftw to be installed for Windows and some other OS (see http://www.fftw.org/index.html)
-    "pycatch22<=0.4.3",  # known to fail installation on some setups
+    "mrsqm>=0.0.7,<0.1.0; platform_system != 'Windows' and python_version < '3.12'",  # requires gcc and fftw to be installed for Windows and some other OS (see http://www.fftw.org/index.html)
+    "pycatch22",  # known to fail installation on some setups
     "pyfftw>=0.12.0; python_version < '3.12'",  # requires fftw to be installed for Windows and some other OS (see http://www.fftw.org/index.html)
 ]
 dev = [