diff --git a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl
index 9d7c1bdf1292..4a2f4742f4f5 100644
--- a/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl
+++ b/src/py/flwr/cli/new/templates/app/pyproject.flowertune.toml.tpl
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ dependencies = [
     "flwr-datasets>=0.3.0",
     "torch==2.3.1",
     "trl==0.8.1",
-    "bitsandbytes==0.43.0",
+    "bitsandbytes==0.45.0",
     "scipy==1.13.0",
     "peft==0.6.2",
-    "transformers==4.43.1",
+    "transformers==4.47.0",
     "sentencepiece==0.2.0",
     "omegaconf==2.3.0",
     "hf_transfer==0.1.8",