diff --git a/dataquality/__init__.py b/dataquality/__init__.py
index 228aa8384..d5e21618d 100644
--- a/dataquality/__init__.py
+++ b/dataquality/__init__.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
         dataquality.get_insights()
 """
 
-__version__ = "v0.8.29"
+__version__ = "v0.8.30"
 
 import sys
 from typing import Any, List, Optional
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f8a105cce..6b5792b87 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ requires = [
     "importlib-metadata<6.0.1",
     "evaluate",
     "datasets>=2.6",
-    "transformers>=4.24.0",
+    "transformers>=4.17.0",
     "seqeval",
     "sentence-transformers>=2.2",
     "Pillow",