diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bdcc5ea1..c8eac06e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ All notable changes to ForgeLM are documented here.
 
 ### Changed
 
+- Admit newer majors of four optional or dev dependencies: `pypdf` 6 and `xxhash` 4 (the `ingestion` extra), `datasketch` 2 (the
+  `ingestion-scale` extra) and `pytest-randomly` 4 and 5 (the `dev` extra). The ingestion, data-audit and doctor test modules pass on pypdf
+  6.21.1, xxhash 4.0.1 and datasketch 2.0.0 with the same results as on the previous majors; CI installs datasketch 2.0.0 and
+  pytest-randomly 5.0.0 for the full suite. `huggingface_hub` stays below 2: ForgeLM has not been tested with it.
 - Raise the `transformers` floor from `>=5.3.0` to `>=5.10.1` (and `huggingface_hub` from `>=1.3.0` to `>=1.5.0`, which
   transformers 5.10 requires). `5.3.0` was described as the CVE fix floor but still admitted CVE-2026-5241 (a LightGlue
   `config.json` overrides `trust_remote_code: false`, fixed in 5.5.0) and CVE-2026-9856 (a `chat_template` name in
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f1e2ce1e..95a3092a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -145,12 +145,12 @@ export = [
 # so a bare install still works.
 # OCR is intentionally out of scope (handle externally with Tesseract).
 ingestion = [
-  "pypdf>=4.0.0,<6.0.0",
+  "pypdf>=4.0.0,<7.0.0",
   "python-docx>=1.0.0,<2.0.0",
   "ebooklib>=0.18,<1.0.0",
   "beautifulsoup4>=4.12.0,<5.0.0",
   "langdetect>=1.0.9,<2.0.0",
-  "xxhash>=3.0.0,<4.0.0",
+  "xxhash>=3.0.0,<5.0.0",
 ]
 
 # Optional MinHash LSH near-duplicate detector for >50K-row corpora.
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ ingestion = [
 # operators auditing larger datasets where MinHash's recall/precision
 # trade-off is the industry standard (NeMo Curator, Dolma, RedPajama).
 ingestion-scale = [
-  "datasketch>=1.6.0,<2.0.0",
+  "datasketch>=1.6.0,<3.0.0",
 ]
 
 # Optional Presidio ML-NER PII detector. Adds the unstructured-identifier
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ dev = [
   # surface in CI instead of waiting for a Python micro-bump or runner
   # change to flip collection order.  Run locally via
   # ``pytest --randomly-seed=<n>`` to reproduce a failure.
-  "pytest-randomly>=3.15.0,<4.0.0",
+  "pytest-randomly>=3.15.0,<6.0.0",
   # Bounded on purpose.  ruff 0.16.0 began formatting Python blocks *inside
   # Markdown*, taking the format check from 277 files to 562 — on an unchanged
   # tree that is 32 newly "unformatted" documents and a red lint job nobody