diff --git a/app/requirements.txt b/app/requirements.txt
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index a6991ba..85c858a
--- a/app/requirements.txt
+++ b/app/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Pin torch to base image versions - DO NOT let pyannote upgrade
-torch==2.4.1
+torch==2.8.0
 torchaudio==2.4.1
 torchvision==0.19.1
 # pyannote 3.1.1 works with torch 2.4.x (no torch>=2.8 requirement)
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ sqlite-vec>=0.1.0
 # whisperx: forced word-level alignment via wav2vec2.
 # 3.1.x series (3.1.1-3.1.6) requires torch>=2 and pyannote.audio==3.1.1 —
 # exactly matching our pins above. These releases are marked "yanked" on PyPI
-# as unofficial but are the only versions compatible with torch==2.4.1 and
+# as unofficial but are the only versions compatible with torch==2.8.0 and
 # pyannote==3.1.1. pip installs yanked packages when the version is specified
 # explicitly. 3.2.0+ requires pyannote==3.3.2 or torch>=2.5; 3.3.0+ adds
 # torch>=2.8 — both incompatible with our stack.