diff --git a/examples/model_assisted_labeling/image_mea.ipynb b/examples/model_assisted_labeling/image_mea.ipynb
index 622f930d5..e6d83944d 100644
--- a/examples/model_assisted_labeling/image_mea.ipynb
+++ b/examples/model_assisted_labeling/image_mea.ipynb
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "!pip install labelbox==2.6b0 \\\n",
+    "!pip install labelbox==2.6b1 \\\n",
     "             requests \\\n",
     "             ndjson \\\n",
     "             scikit-image \\\n",
diff --git a/labelbox/__init__.py b/labelbox/__init__.py
index 900b321a3..f0eb0af03 100644
--- a/labelbox/__init__.py
+++ b/labelbox/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name = "labelbox"
-__version__ = "2.6b0"
+__version__ = "2.6b1"
 
 from labelbox.client import Client
 from labelbox.schema.model import Model
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d3f3f2417..7bb5ed60a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@
         "backoff==1.10.0",
         "backports-datetime-fromisoformat==1.0.0; python_version < '3.7.0'",
         "dataclasses==0.7; python_version < '3.7.0'", "ndjson==0.3.1",
-        "requests>=2.22.0", "google-api-core>=1.22.1", "pydantic==1.8",
-        "shapely", "numpy", "PILLOW"
         "requests>=2.22.0", "google-api-core>=1.22.1", "pydantic>=1.8,<2.0",
         "shapely", "numpy", "PILLOW"
     ],