diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f4ee30b9963..f3b41499a9b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install requirements
         run: pip install -r dev_tools/requirements/dev.env.txt
       - name: RST check
-        run: find . -type f -name "*.rst" | xargs rstcheck --report warning --ignore-directives autoclass,automodule
+        run: find . -type f -name "*.rst" | xargs rstcheck
       - name: Doc check
         run: check/doctest -q
   nbformat:
diff --git a/cirq-core/requirements.txt b/cirq-core/requirements.txt
index ccba6c10b72..ef23cdf53de 100644
--- a/cirq-core/requirements.txt
+++ b/cirq-core/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ networkx>=2.4
 numpy~=1.22
 pandas
 sortedcontainers~=2.0
-scipy<1.13.0
+scipy~=1.0
 sympy
 typing_extensions>=4.2
 tqdm
diff --git a/dev_tools/requirements/deps/dev-tools.txt b/dev_tools/requirements/deps/dev-tools.txt
index a7fdce6c38d..b007a7933cc 100644
--- a/dev_tools/requirements/deps/dev-tools.txt
+++ b/dev_tools/requirements/deps/dev-tools.txt
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ asv
 qiskit-aer~=0.12.0
 
 # For verifying rst
-rstcheck~=3.3.1
+rstcheck
diff --git a/dev_tools/requirements/deps/notebook.txt b/dev_tools/requirements/deps/notebook.txt
index 84ec065de0e..dfd0edb613f 100644
--- a/dev_tools/requirements/deps/notebook.txt
+++ b/dev_tools/requirements/deps/notebook.txt
@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
 -r ipython.txt
 
-# Notebook >=6.4.8 + coverage > 6.2 hangs CI: https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq/issues/4897
-notebook>=6.4.1,<=6.4.7
+notebook~=7.0
 
-# https://github.com/nteract/papermill/issues/519
-ipykernel==5.3.4
+ipykernel~=6.29
 
 # for executing notebooks in tests
-papermill~=2.3.2
+papermill~=2.6
 
 # for notebooks that do `pip install cirq-core[contrib]`
 -r ../../../cirq-core/cirq/contrib/requirements.txt
 
 # assumed to be part of colab
 seaborn~=0.12
+
+# TODO(#6281) - remove below after the merge of #6281
+jupyterlab~=4.0.13
+jupyterlab-server~=2.24.0
+nbformat~=5.10.4
diff --git a/dev_tools/requirements/deps/tensorflow-docs.txt b/dev_tools/requirements/deps/tensorflow-docs.txt
index 1ec6bead62a..25ba5555ee3 100644
--- a/dev_tools/requirements/deps/tensorflow-docs.txt
+++ b/dev_tools/requirements/deps/tensorflow-docs.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-tensorflow-docs@https://github.com/tensorflow/docs/tarball/3a6a7a3322de8620f0031ae3a0a4b62e40d1d7f2
+tensorflow-docs@https://github.com/tensorflow/docs/archive/3a6a7a3322de8620f0031ae3a0a4b62e40d1d7f2/master.tar.gz