Merge branch 'master' into feat/ModelCheckpointException

Author: vsey

requirements/pytorch/base.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # NOTE: the upper bound for the package version is only set for CI stability, and it is dropped while installing this package
 #  in case you want to preserve/enforce restrictions on the latest compatible version, add "strict" as an in-line comment
 
-torch >=2.1.0, <2.8.0
+torch >=2.1.0, <=2.8.0
 tqdm >=4.57.0, <4.68.0
 PyYAML >5.4, <6.1.0
 fsspec[http] >=2022.5.0, <2025.6.0