diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 3d867dcdb..d275063a2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ dcicutils
 Change Log
 ----------
 
+8.14.2
+======
+* Corrected requests version on pyproject.toml to not be pinned.
+
+
 8.14.1
 ======
 * Minor changes to utility/troubleshooting/convenience scripts view-portal-object and update-portal-object.
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index ad7f922a2..15c734395 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.4.2 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.3 and should not be changed by hand.
 
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-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "<4.0,>=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -2054,7 +1974,6 @@ files = [
 name = "types-s3transfer"
 version = "0.10.1"
 description = "Type annotations and code completion for s3transfer"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "<4.0,>=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -2066,7 +1985,6 @@ files = [
 name = "typing-extensions"
 version = "4.12.2"
 description = "Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.8+"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -2078,7 +1996,6 @@ files = [
 name = "urllib3"
 version = "1.26.19"
 description = "HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more."
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,>=2.7"
 files = [
@@ -2095,7 +2012,6 @@ socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7,<2.0)"]
 name = "venusian"
 version = "3.1.0"
 description = "A library for deferring decorator actions"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -2111,7 +2027,6 @@ testing = ["coverage", "pytest", "pytest-cov"]
 name = "waitress"
 version = "3.0.0"
 description = "Waitress WSGI server"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8.0"
 files = [
@@ -2127,7 +2042,6 @@ testing = ["coverage (>=5.0)", "pytest", "pytest-cov"]
 name = "wcwidth"
 version = "0.2.13"
 description = "Measures the displayed width of unicode strings in a terminal"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -2139,7 +2053,6 @@ files = [
 name = "webob"
 version = "1.8.7"
 description = "WSGI request and response object"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7,!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*"
 files = [
@@ -2155,7 +2068,6 @@ testing = ["coverage", "pytest (>=3.1.0)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-xdist"]
 name = "websocket-client"
 version = "1.8.0"
 description = "WebSocket client for Python with low level API options"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -2172,7 +2084,6 @@ test = ["websockets"]
 name = "webtest"
 version = "2.0.35"
 description = "Helper to test WSGI applications"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -2194,7 +2105,6 @@ tests = ["PasteDeploy", "WSGIProxy2", "coverage", "mock", "nose (<1.3.0)", "pyqu
 name = "zipp"
 version = "3.19.2"
 description = "Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
@@ -2210,7 +2120,6 @@ test = ["big-O", "importlib-resources", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools",
 name = "zope-deprecation"
 version = "5.0"
 description = "Zope Deprecation Infrastructure"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">= 3.7"
 files = [
@@ -2229,7 +2138,6 @@ test = ["zope.testrunner"]
 name = "zope-interface"
 version = "6.4.post2"
 description = "Interfaces for Python"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -2282,4 +2190,4 @@ testing = ["coverage (>=5.0.3)", "zope.event", "zope.testing"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8.1,<3.13"
-content-hash = "bb78e9c396c24c7df9ab1768d13cd979909c31edcdf796bebbb28bb07a5720a6"
+content-hash = "0206d50bf0226fa1c63dc0ce2e9e91607d34afb3ee7880757d8cdd185002aa19"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bfe446d56..ac659dc8e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "dcicutils"
-version = "8.14.1"
+version = "8.14.1.1b1"  # TODO: To become 8.14.2
 description = "Utility package for interacting with the 4DN Data Portal and other 4DN resources"
 authors = ["4DN-DCIC Team <support@4dnucleome.org>"]
 license = "MIT"
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ pyperclip = "^1.8.2"
 PyYAML = "^6.0.1"
 # N.B. 2024-06-30: Updating (via poetry update) from requests 2.31.0 (2023-05-22)
 # to 2.32.3 (2024-05-29) causes utils GA/CI to fail (on test_ecr_utils_workflow) for some reason.
-requests = "2.31.0"
+requests = "^2.31.0"
 rfc3986 = "^1.4.0"
 shortuuid = "^1.0.13"
 structlog = "^19.2.0"