diff --git a/requirements-common.txt b/requirements-common.txt
index 7051ca8cb50c..24d291161d94 100644
--- a/requirements-common.txt
+++ b/requirements-common.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ requests >= 2.26.0
 tqdm
 blake3
 py-cpuinfo
-transformers >= 4.45.2  # Required for Llama 3.2 and Qwen2-VL.
+transformers >= 4.48.2  # Required for Bamba
 tokenizers >= 0.19.1  # Required for Llama 3.
 protobuf # Required by LlamaTokenizer.
 fastapi >= 0.107.0, < 0.113.0; python_version < '3.9'
diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
index df7e904bb0d3..5e8bca0f8d79 100644
--- a/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/requirements-test.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 #
 #    python3.12 -m piptools compile requirements-test.in -o requirements-test.txt
 #
+# Note: When updating this file please leave the above command as-is to explicitly use python3.12
+#
 absl-py==2.1.0
     # via rouge-score
 accelerate==1.0.1
@@ -617,7 +619,7 @@ tqdm==4.66.6
     #   transformers
 tqdm-multiprocess==0.0.11
     # via lm-eval
-transformers==4.47.0
+transformers==4.48.2
     # via
     #   genai-perf
     #   lm-eval