diff --git a/.ci/docker/common/install_pytorch.sh b/.ci/docker/common/install_pytorch.sh
index 4bf33348681..32f753ba528 100755
--- a/.ci/docker/common/install_pytorch.sh
+++ b/.ci/docker/common/install_pytorch.sh
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ install_pytorch_and_domains() {
   pip_install "$(echo dist/*.whl)"
 
   # Grab the pinned audio and vision commits from PyTorch
-  TORCHAUDIO_VERSION=$(cat .github/ci_commit_pins/audio.txt)
+  TORCHAUDIO_VERSION=release/2.8
   export TORCHAUDIO_VERSION
-  TORCHVISION_VERSION=$(cat .github/ci_commit_pins/vision.txt)
+  TORCHVISION_VERSION=release/0.23
   export TORCHVISION_VERSION
 
   install_domains
diff --git a/.ci/scripts/setup-linux.sh b/.ci/scripts/setup-linux.sh
index a090571ab49..7edb85e2af7 100755
--- a/.ci/scripts/setup-linux.sh
+++ b/.ci/scripts/setup-linux.sh
@@ -16,12 +16,8 @@ read -r BUILD_TOOL BUILD_MODE EDITABLE < <(parse_args "$@")
 # have already been installed, so we use PyTorch build from source here instead
 # of nightly. This allows CI to test against latest commits from PyTorch
 if [[ "${EDITABLE:-false}" == "true" ]]; then
-  install_executorch --use-pt-pinned-commit --editable
+  install_executorch --editable
 else
-  install_executorch --use-pt-pinned-commit
+  install_executorch
 fi
 build_executorch_runner "${BUILD_TOOL}" "${BUILD_MODE}"
-
-if [[ "${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-}" == *main* || "${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-}" == *gh* ]]; then
-  do_not_use_nightly_on_ci
-fi
diff --git a/install_requirements.py b/install_requirements.py
index 0600c123dab..bc89abaa206 100644
--- a/install_requirements.py
+++ b/install_requirements.py
@@ -143,26 +143,6 @@ def install_optional_example_requirements(use_pytorch_nightly):
         check=True,
     )
 
-    print("Installing torch domain libraries")
-    DOMAIN_LIBRARIES = [
-        ("torchvision==0.23.0" if use_pytorch_nightly else "torchvision"),
-        "torchaudio==2.8.0" if use_pytorch_nightly else "torchaudio",
-    ]
-    # Then install domain libraries
-    subprocess.run(
-        [
-            sys.executable,
-            "-m",
-            "pip",
-            "install",
-            *DOMAIN_LIBRARIES,
-            "--extra-index-url",
-            TORCH_URL,
-        ],
-        check=True,
-    )
-
-
 # Prebuilt binaries for Intel-based macOS are no longer available on PyPI; users must compile from source.
 # PyTorch stopped building macOS x86_64 binaries since version 2.3.0 (January 2024).
 def is_intel_mac_os():
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7d44fef42a5..68d742a2795 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ dependencies=[
   "pyyaml",
   "ruamel.yaml",
   "sympy",
+  "torch>=2.8.0,<2.9.0",
   "torchao==0.12.0",
   "tabulate",
   # See also third-party/TARGETS for buck's typing-extensions version.
diff --git a/requirements-examples.txt b/requirements-examples.txt
index 83f3d6bac4c..78bcb3e5e40 100644
--- a/requirements-examples.txt
+++ b/requirements-examples.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ timm == 1.0.7
 torchsr == 1.0.4
 torchtune >= 0.6.1
 transformers ==4.47.1
+torchaudio>=2.8.0,<2.9.0
+torchvision>=0.23.0,<0.24.0
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