Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Current version dependency for Pydantic is very strict: pydantic==2.6.0. This is causing incompatibility with other packages using pydantic. Other packages in the requirements also have strict dependencies too.

Describe the solution you'd like

Relax the pydantic version dependency (e.g. pydantic~=2.6) to improve compatibility with other packages. Potentially relax dependencies of other package versions.