diff --git a/benchmarks/pyproject.toml b/benchmarks/pyproject.toml
index 22705da37..a97e7f67a 100644
--- a/benchmarks/pyproject.toml
+++ b/benchmarks/pyproject.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "tabulate",
     "types-tabulate",
     # Satisfies vLLM 0.11.0 (>=4.55.2), vLLM 0.11.2 (>=4.56.0,<5), TRT-LLM 1.2.0rc6.post1 (==4.57.1), SGLang 0.5.7 (==4.57.1)
-    "transformers>=4.56.0,<=4.57.1",
+    "transformers>=4.56.0",
     "pytest-mypy",
 ]
 
diff --git a/container/deps/requirements.txt b/container/deps/requirements.txt
index 37735e20d..5675d597f 100644
--- a/container/deps/requirements.txt
+++ b/container/deps/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 accelerate
 aiconfigurator[webapp] @ git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiconfigurator.git@9db6a1a5011c0ff80b5349f377f17846c5274b02
 aiofiles
-aiperf @ git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@4d3fa29403c8f75da22a14f1f7b3aeb27db9288f
+aiperf @ git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@54cd6dc820bff8bfebc875da104e59d745e14f75
 av==15.0.0
 fastapi==0.120.1
 ftfy==6.3.1
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ tensorboardX==2.6.2.2
 # - vLLM 0.11.0: >=4.55.2, vLLM 0.11.2: >=4.56.0,<5
 # - TensorRT-LLM 1.2.0rc6.post1: ==4.57.1
 # - SGLang 0.5.7: ==4.57.1
-# Using >=4.56.0 and <=4.57.1 to satisfy all frameworks
-transformers>=4.56.0,<=4.57.1
+# Using >=4.56.0 to satisfy all frameworks
+transformers>=4.56.0
 types-aiofiles==25.1.0.20251011
 types-PyYAML==6.0.12.20250915
 uvicorn==0.38.0
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4c6732797..b0e3fcc73 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ license-files = ["LICENSE"]
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
     "ai-dynamo-runtime==0.8.0",
-    "transformers>=4.56.0,<=4.57.1",
+    "transformers>=4.56.0",
     "pytest>=8.3.4",
     "types-psutil>=7.0.0.20250218",
     "kubernetes>=32.0.1,<33.0.0",
diff --git a/recipes/gpt-oss-120b/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml b/recipes/gpt-oss-120b/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml
index ef139d8bd..adb62e2e6 100644
--- a/recipes/gpt-oss-120b/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml
+++ b/recipes/gpt-oss-120b/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ spec:
         - -c
         - |
           apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl jq procps git && apt-get clean
-          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@4d3fa29403c8f75da22a14f1f7b3aeb27db9288f;
+          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@54cd6dc820bff8bfebc875da104e59d745e14f75;
           echo "aiperf installation completed";
           sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="1024 65000"
           cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
diff --git a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/agg/perf.yaml b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/agg/perf.yaml
index 9ffb88356..9e4e7f8f8 100644
--- a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/agg/perf.yaml
+++ b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/agg/perf.yaml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ spec:
         - -c
         - |
           apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl jq procps git && apt-get clean
-          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@4d3fa29403c8f75da22a14f1f7b3aeb27db9288f;
+          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@54cd6dc820bff8bfebc875da104e59d745e14f75;
           echo "aiperf installation completed";
           sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="1024 65000"
           cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
diff --git a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-multi-node/perf.yaml b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-multi-node/perf.yaml
index a3312dfbc..abc66be09 100644
--- a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-multi-node/perf.yaml
+++ b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-multi-node/perf.yaml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ spec:
         - -c
         - |
           apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl jq procps git && apt-get clean
-          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@4d3fa29403c8f75da22a14f1f7b3aeb27db9288f;
+          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@54cd6dc820bff8bfebc875da104e59d745e14f75;
           echo "aiperf installation completed";
           sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="1024 65000"
           cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
diff --git a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-single-node/perf.yaml b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-single-node/perf.yaml
index 715c242f5..48d706e71 100644
--- a/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-single-node/perf.yaml
+++ b/recipes/llama-3-70b/vllm/disagg-single-node/perf.yaml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ spec:
         - -c
         - |
           apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl jq procps git && apt-get clean
-          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@4d3fa29403c8f75da22a14f1f7b3aeb27db9288f;
+          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@54cd6dc820bff8bfebc875da104e59d745e14f75;
           echo "aiperf installation completed";
           sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="1024 65000"
           cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
diff --git a/recipes/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml b/recipes/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml
index 340ff1a66..57c940a48 100644
--- a/recipes/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml
+++ b/recipes/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ spec:
         - -c
         - |
           apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl jq procps git && apt-get clean
-          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@4d3fa29403c8f75da22a14f1f7b3aeb27db9288f;
+          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@54cd6dc820bff8bfebc875da104e59d745e14f75;
           echo "aiperf installation completed";
           sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="1024 65000"
           cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
diff --git a/recipes/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/perf.yaml b/recipes/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/perf.yaml
index 2f67fcc26..bbf24a4e7 100644
--- a/recipes/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/perf.yaml
+++ b/recipes/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/perf.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ spec:
         - -c
         - |
           apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl jq procps git && apt-get clean
-          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@4d3fa29403c8f75da22a14f1f7b3aeb27db9288f;
+          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@54cd6dc820bff8bfebc875da104e59d745e14f75;
           echo "aiperf installation completed";
           sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="1024 65000"
           cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
diff --git a/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml b/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml
index 49a9c6e6e..0ef08f5e6 100644
--- a/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml
+++ b/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/agg/perf.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ spec:
         - -c
         - |
           apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl jq procps git && apt-get clean
-          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@4d3fa29403c8f75da22a14f1f7b3aeb27db9288f;
+          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@54cd6dc820bff8bfebc875da104e59d745e14f75;
           echo "aiperf installation completed";
           sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="1024 65000"
           cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
diff --git a/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/perf.yaml b/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/perf.yaml
index 34ec8e26e..cab144b2b 100644
--- a/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/perf.yaml
+++ b/recipes/qwen3-32b-fp8/trtllm/disagg/perf.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ spec:
         - -c
         - |
           apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl jq procps git && apt-get clean
-          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@4d3fa29403c8f75da22a14f1f7b3aeb27db9288f;
+          pip install git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@54cd6dc820bff8bfebc875da104e59d745e14f75;
           echo "aiperf installation completed";
           sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="1024 65000"
           cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
diff --git a/tests/fault_tolerance/deploy/client.py b/tests/fault_tolerance/deploy/client.py
index e241066ee..11553cfa7 100644
--- a/tests/fault_tolerance/deploy/client.py
+++ b/tests/fault_tolerance/deploy/client.py
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ def run_aiperf(
                 )
                 if success:
                     break  # Success - exit the retry loop
-            ## TODO: bug with aiperf git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@4d3fa29403c8f75da22a14f1f7b3aeb27db9288f
+            ## TODO: bug with aiperf git+https://github.com/ai-dynamo/aiperf.git@54cd6dc820bff8bfebc875da104e59d745e14f75
             ## where sending a SIGINT on Mac can sometimes have an error code of -9 (SIGABRT) which results in profile_export_aiperf.json not being created
             elif result.returncode == -9 and continuous_load:
                 logger.warning(